Sensors, Controls & Machine Vision
Sensing, machine vision and the control architecture that makes an installation behave as one machine.
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- OT-2026-000001534
A torque sensor element for measuring a torque applied to a joint is described. The torque sensor element includes: an outer frame and an inner frame respectively to connect to first and second sides of a joint; and a compliant arrangement connecting the outer frame to the inner frame. The compliant arrangement include
- OT-2026-000001528
A numerical control system 1 comprises a robot control device 6 that controls an action of a robot 30 , and a numerical control device 5 that is communicably connected to the robot control device 6 , and controls an action of a machine tool 2 . The robot control device 6 comprises: a storage unit 61 that stores a plura
- OT-2026-000001518
A materials handling vehicle comprising a camera, a vehicle position processor, and a drive mechanism configured to move the materials handling vehicle along an inventory transit surface. The vehicle position processor is configured to generate end-of-aisle data and aisle-specific rack leg spacing data from an image of
- OT-2026-000001382
A method is provided for wireless communication between a wireless remote control device comprising a peripheral device and a controller on a materials handling vehicle comprising a central device. The method may comprise: polling via a plurality of connection event requests, by the central device, communicated with th
- OT-2026-000001318
A method for measuring and analysing packages particularly for optimising storage in a warehouse or for packing for transporting. The method follows the steps of placing packages on a floor surface moving a robot to adjacent one of the packages. Lidar or similar is used to measuring distance data from the robot to the
- OT-2026-000001306
An embodiment system for adjusting a gap step includes a process device configured to mount a first moving part and a second moving part, a first information obtaining device including a camera, and a control device configured to control the process device based on a first driving control value such that the first movi
- OT-2026-000001305
Some aspects provide a method for instructing operation of a robotic floor-cleaning device based on the position of the robotic floor-cleaning device within a two-dimensional map of the workspace. A two-dimensional map of a workspace is generated using inputs from sensors positioned on a robotic floor-cleaning device t
- OT-2026-000001304
A system includes one or more movers configured to move along a track of an industrial automation system and a computing device. The computing device receives data associated with the movers as the movers move around the track. The data includes a first amount of time for at least one of the movers to move between two
- OT-2026-000001297
The present disclosure generally relates to performance recreation, and in particular, the recreation of observed human performance using reinforcement learning. In this regard, a first object is identified from a plurality of objects. The manipulation of the first object is tracked from a first position to a second po
- OT-2026-000001289
A control system that is configured to control a system including a mobile robot configured to autonomously move and a plurality of cameras installed in a facility includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a decision process of deciding a camera to be used with at least one o
- OT-2026-000001276
A system includes an inspection robot comprising a main body and at least one payload; a plurality of arms, where each of the plurality of arms is pivotally mounted to the at least one payload to rotate around respective ones of a plurality of axes while the inspection robot traverses an inspection surface in a directi
- OT-2026-000001256
According to the present invention, a three-dimensional resolution target is attained together with a relative system for the characterization of the surface defects/indications via indirect visual examinations of various surfaces. The object of such target is to compare and evaluate the resolution of the image acquire
- OT-2026-000001209
Embodiments of the present application disclose an abnormal area marking method and a related apparatus. The method includes: when a predicament is detected during an operation process, determining an area of a current position as an abnormal area; obtaining a sensing data set within a specified time period during the
- OT-2026-000001205
Having a flexible robotic system layout that allows for the assembly of any structure creates a challenge in finding an optimal sequence of assembly. In some examples, the optimal sequence of assembly may provide the highest robot utilization, the shortest cycle time, the greatest assembly accuracy of the final assembl
- OT-2026-000001187
One embodiment of a media handling system ( 5 ) is disclosed for mixing and or entraining grinding media ( 15 ) with a liquid media ( 10 ) for supply to a selected destination (D). In one form, the system ( 5 ) comprises a first media transfer module ( 30 ) configured operable for providing a flow of liquid media ( 10
- OT-2026-000001182
A system and method for aligning a target (32) or light sensor (40) to a vehicle (24) for calibration of a sensor (34) or alignment of a light (114) on the vehicle (24) includes multiple non-contact wheel alignment sensors (28) for use in determining the orientation of the vehicle (24). A target adjustment frame (26) i
- OT-2026-000001117
Image sensors distributed about a workcell including industrial machinery are registered using a registration object and an information tag associated therewith. The tag contains information specifying the location of the object and/or the pose of the object. This information is acquired along with images of the regist
- OT-2026-000001109
A system for allocating jobs and/or targets to robots in an automated storage and retrieval system includes a plurality of robots and a framework structure forming a three-dimensional storage grid structure for storing containers. Each robot has wheels configured to move along two perpendicular horizontal directions on
- OT-2026-000001068
A method for controlling movement of a moving body includes: obtaining a first voxel set of an obstacle, where the first voxel set includes at least one first voxel that identifies the obstacle in space in which the moving body is located; determining a valid moving path based on a mapping relationship between a voxel
- OT-2026-000001060
Systems and methods of sensor data fusion including sensor data capture, curation, linking, fusion, inference, and validation. The systems and methods described herein reduce computational demand and processing time by curating data and calculating conditional entropy. The system is operable to fuse data from a plurali
- OT-2026-000001047
A robot cleaner includes: an IR light source; an IR receiver; a driver; and one or more processors configured to: control the driver to move the robot cleaner through a space, output IR light using the IR light source while the robot cleaner moves through the space, and perform an operation of detecting liquid on a flo
- OT-2026-000001045
The invention relates to a force/torque sensor device (10) for a force/torque sensor means (1) for a robotic entity (0), in particular a robot arm (0) or a robot joint (0), comprising two coaxially arranged flanges (100, 200) connected to each other via a plurality of mechanical transmission structures (14) of the sens
- OT-2026-000001030
Motion control integration including: a centralized integration system including data storage, a user interface, and multiple network connections; a first motion platform connected to the centralized integration system; a second motion platform connected to the centralized integration system; and a shared clock, where
- OT-2026-000001027
Systems and methods for detection of features within data collected by a plurality of robots by a centralized server are disclosed herein. According to at least one non-limiting exemplary embodiment, a plurality of robots may be utilized to collect a substantial amount of feature data using one or more sensors coupled
- OT-2026-000001005
A force/torque sensor device for a force/torque sensor means for a robotic entity, in particular a robot arm or a robot joint, includes two coaxially arranged flanges connected to each other via a plurality of mechanical transmission structures of the sensor device, wherein in each transmission structure a single defor
- OT-2026-000000986
Human-in-the-loop automation training using artificial intelligence (AI) for agentic automation is disclosed. This may be accomplished by a listener watching interactions of a user or an AI agent with a computing system. Based on the interactions by the user or the AI agent with the computing system, the automation may
- OT-2026-000000907
22523006_1 (GHMatters) P110063.AU.2 A system for controlling an industrial vehicle comprising: a badge communicator on an industrial vehicle that communicates with electronic badges that are in range of the badge communicator; and a controller on the industrial vehicle that is coupled to memory, wherein the controller
- OT-2026-000000898
When a remotely controlled work machine loses a wireless connection on a work site, operation of the work machine should be terminated for safety purposes. However, if the work machine is moving when the wireless connection is lost, the work machine will continue moving for some time due to inertia. Accordingly, embodi
- OT-2026-000000896
A control unit ( 10 ) is a device for detecting the condition of a floor surface (FL) on which a target ( 30 ) has been placed, and comprises a distance calculation unit ( 11 ) and a target detection unit ( 18 ). The distance calculation unit ( 11 ) calculates information about the distance to the target ( 30 ) accordi
- OT-2026-000000893
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate a predictive asset health quantifier of a turbine engine. An example apparatus includes a performance model analyzer to determine a fleet behavior parameter by generating a reference performance model using historical information for a f
- OT-2026-000000892
A load control system may control an electrical load in a space of a building occupied by an occupant. The load control system may include a controller configured to determine the location of the occupant, and a load control device configured to automatically control the electrical load in response to the location of t
- OT-2026-000000886
A system and method for monitoring and controlling an industrial process using a data model extensible to different industry applications. The system is configured to: receive data describing the industrial process from one or more data sources in a first format; contextualize and transform the data by determining one
- OT-2026-000000876
A measuring system for measuring an object, the measuring system comprising a measuring device and a controlling and processing unit. The measuring device comprises at least one camera, a first optical sensor and a second optical sensor, the first optical sensor provides a first field of view and is configured for coll
- OT-2026-000000873
A multi-channel SMI sensor includes an emitter configured to emit light having different polarizations and a polarization-selective lens for directing light having different polarizations towards different locations. The multi-channel SMI sensor is configured to measure physical phenomena at two different locations wit
- OT-2026-000000870
A cold planer includes a conveyor system having a conveyor belt, a frame, and a roller rotatably coupled to the frame, a motor coupled to the conveyor belt and configured to drive the conveyor belt, a tension screw coupled between the roller and the frame, a tension sensor configured to measure the tension on the conve
- OT-2026-000000869
A control system includes a storage that stores a computational model of a reference response profile representing a frequency characteristic of a reference state of a control target corresponding to a first command, and circuitry configured to calculate a first actual response profile representing a frequency characte
- OT-2026-000000860
An intelligent obstacle detection system for an unmanned mine vehicle is provided to solve the problem of existing intelligent obstacle detection systems for unmanned mine vehicles cannot compare and analyze the actual driving data with the preset data and includes an intelligent detection platform, a route planning de
- OT-2026-000000859
An integrated strain gauge assembly including at least one strain gauge having an adhesive adhered to a surface thereof and a flexible printed circuit board fixed to the at least one strain gauge. A method for mounting a strain gauge assembly onto a surface of an article the strain of which it is desired to monitor and
- OT-2026-000000856
A method and system for task planning for visual room rearrangement under partial observability is disclosed. The system or the robotic agent utilizes a visual input to efficiently plan a sequence of actions for simultaneous object search and rearrangement in an untidy room, to achieve a desired tidy state. Unlike sear
- OT-2026-000000851
A vehicular system includes a measuring unit attached to a vehicle to detect a magnetic marker laid along a traveling road, a database storing position information of the magnetic marker, and a control unit that acquires the position information of the magnetic marker by referring to a storage area of the database. The
- OT-2026-000000849
A three-dimensional measurement device includes: an irradiator that emits a predetermined light; an optical system that splits the predetermined light into two lights, irradiates a measurement object with a measurement light and irradiates a reference plane with a reference light, and emits a combined light; an imaging
- OT-2026-000000848
The invention relates to a hydrogen supervisory control and data acquisition system for monitoring a plurality of batches of hydrogen, the hydrogen supervisory control and data acquisition system comprising: a hydrogen production facility client, associated with a hydrogen production facility, a hydrogen customer clien
- OT-2026-000000846
In order to provide an optimized multi-axis system having mechanically coupled axes, a feedforward control identification process is provided, during which actual identification variables occurring in each case at the motor are each provided to identification units associated with the feedforward controllers, wherein f
- OT-2026-000000844
Provided are a detection system, compensation method and computer-readable recording medium applicable to semiconductor surface morphology to provide feature information corresponding to spectral signals to a neural network model and provide feature information corresponding to spectral signals, a detected height, and
- OT-2026-000000838
A pressure sensor device includes a base including joint portions to join to a mounting substrate, and an oscillator to oscillate with respect to the base. The oscillator includes a capacitor including a membrane that is deformable in accordance with an ambient pressure difference as a sensor electrode and a facing ele
- OT-2026-000000835
A logging support apparatus ( 10 ) includes a device enumerator ( 101 ) to analyze a project file (D 121 ) for a control system including a PLC ( 20 ) and enumerate at least one device related to the control system, a display controller ( 102 ) to cause a list of the at least one device enumerated by the device enumera
- OT-2026-000000821
A robot includes a torso, a head coupled to the torso so as to be rotatable with respect to the torso, and at least one processor. The at least one processor determines whether the torso is inclined from a horizontal direction and, in a case where a determination is made that the torso is inclined from the horizontal d
- OT-2026-000000817
A method for processing a takt at a station includes: obtaining takt data of each station within a preset time period, and determining a takt boxplot of each station according to the takt data; obtaining a material blocking time, a material shortage time and a failure time in each takt, determining an effective takt of
- OT-2026-000000812
Multiple wireless maintenance monitors can be affixed to an industrial machine and its subcomponents. Each monitor can collect samples from the industrial machine. For some applications, including failure analysis of parts with rotating elements, measuring or estimating the rotation speeds of the rotating elements can
- OT-2026-000000809
A system for asset failure and replacement management is disclosed. The system includes a communication interface and processor(s) configured to: receive an indication that the drone is part of a set of assets, wherein the set of assets are tasked with performing element(s) of task(s), and the set of assets comprises a