公开(公告)号：US20250108510A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18863780

申请日：2022-05-13

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Jonas Haulin ,  Tomas Groth ,  Stefan Romberg ,  Richard Roberts ,  Tobias Berninger

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J19/00

Abstract: A method of controlling an industrial robot, including a robot controller, a programming interface, which is separate from the robot controller, and a robot manipulator with a plurality of actuators. The method includes: receiving a first release signal via a first safe input means; receiving actuator-selection data, which indicates one or more of the actuators, via an arbitrary input means at the programming interface; receiving a second release signal via a second safe input means at the programming interface after having received the actuator-selection data; and, in response to determining that the first and second release signals are still received, causing the actuators indicated by the actuator-selection data to enter a movement-without-drive-power mode.

公开(公告)号：US20240393136A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-28

申请号：US18796910

申请日：2024-08-07

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Richard Roberts ,  Werner Hösl

IPC: G01D3/08 ,  H02K3/28

Abstract: A resolver comprises a pair of stator windings and a rotor winding that is rotatable with respect to the stator windings and inductively coupled to these. A method for monitoring the resolver comprises exciting the rotor winding with an alternating current having an oscillation frequency and a first phase, obtaining voltages induced in the stator windings by the alternating current flowing in the rotor winding, deciding that the resolver is defective when a shift between phases of a first one of said induced voltages and of the alternating current differs from a nominal phase shift by more than a predetermined phase threshold.

公开(公告)号：US10788576B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-29

申请号：US16690162

申请日：2019-11-21

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Bjoern Matthias ,  Richard Roberts ,  Andreas Decker ,  Christoph Byner ,  Nicolas Lehment

IPC: G01S13/34 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/08 ,  G01S7/35 ,  G01S7/40 ,  G01S13/58 ,  G01S13/88

Abstract: A distance measuring system includes: at least one emitter, which emits a frequency-variable scanning signal; at least one receiver; and an analysis unit for computing a distance to an object reflecting the scanning signal on the basis of a difference between the frequencies of the emitted and the received scanning signal. The rate of change of the frequency of the scanning signal in a first operating mode of the distance measuring system has a first finite value. The rate of change of the frequency in a second operating mode has a second finite value. The analysis unit is configured to compute a first distance on the basis of a frequency difference ascertained in the first operating mode, to compute a second distance on the basis of a frequency difference ascertained in the second operating mode, and to evaluate the correspondence between first and second computed distance.