公开(公告)号：WO2022268288A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：PCT/EP2021/066833

申请日：2021-06-21

Applicant: ABB SCHWEIZ AG

Inventor： ZHIBO, Pang ,  WIATR, Pawel ,  SCHULZ, Dirk

IPC: H02J50/20 ,  H02J50/80

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-powered wireless sensor and actuator system (100), SP- WSAN, comprising an SP-WSAN gateway (110) and an SP-WSAN device (140). The SP- WSAN gateway (110) is configured to communicate with an SP-WSAN device (140) and the SP-WSAN device (140) is configured for sensing and/or actuating and for communicating with the SP-WSAN gateway (110) wherein the SP-WSAN device (140) is further configured to be powered by energy received over air from a cellular radio device (130) for sensing and/or actuating and for communicating with the SP-WSAN gateway (110).

公开(公告)号：WO2022214193A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-13

申请号：PCT/EP2021/059278

申请日：2021-04-09

Applicant: ABB SCHWEIZ AG

Inventor： PANG, Zhibo ,  DOBRIJEVIC, Ognjen ,  LANDERNÄS, Krister ,  WIATR, Pawel

IPC: H04L41/0896 ,  H04L41/12 ,  G06Q10/08

Abstract: A control network (100) for supporting one or more mobile robots (130) operable in a facility comprises: a fleet management system (FMS, 110) authorized to perform path planning and path execution for the mobile robots; and a network management system (NMS, 120) authorized to configure and perform resource allocation in an access network (125), which is operable to provide the mobile robots with wireless connectivity in the facility. The respective authorities of the FMS and NMS are mutually exclusive, and the FMS is configured to generate, on the basis of the path planning, a predictive network resource request and share this with the NMS. A vertical application layer (VAL) server is configured to generate a network resource request which specifies a future location of said one or more VAL UEs. A network resource management server is configured to generate a QoS forecast for one or more VAL UEs.

公开(公告)号：WO2023030658A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-09

申请号：PCT/EP2021/074437

申请日：2021-09-06

Applicant: ABB SCHWEIZ AG

Inventor： PANG, Zhibo ,  WIATR, Pawel ,  DOBRIJEVIC, Ognjen ,  GADE, Jörgen

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  H04L67/00

Abstract: A control network (110) for supporting multiple industrial automation devices (120) which operate in radio coverage of at least one radio access network (130) comprises: a processor (111) configured to execute applications (114); at least two wireless network interfaces (112), each configured to communicate with said automation devices; and a traffic controller (113) configured to provide a logical connection (143) from an executing application to one of the automation devices by maintaining at least two contemporaneous physical connections (140) using respective wireless network interfaces (112) and the radio access network. The control network is further configured to repeatedly adapt a physical redundancy of the logical connection. In some embodiments, the control network is configured to determine a level of independence between the physical connections on the basis of measurements, and adapt the redundancy accordingly. The level of independence may be determined by comparing time series of a quality-of-service related quantity.

公开(公告)号：WO2022199856A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：PCT/EP2021/058028

申请日：2021-03-26

Applicant: ABB SCHWEIZ AG

Inventor： LANDERNÄS, Krister ,  PANG, Zhibo ,  DOBRIJEVIC, Ognjen ,  WIATR, Pawel

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G05B19/418

Abstract: An industrial robot (10) adapted for operation in a factory area (100) comprises: sensors (11), actuators (12), a robot controller (13) and a wireless interface (14) configured to establish a sidelink (20) to a further industrial robot (110) or a group of industrial robots after a successful proximity verification. The industrial robot is configured to participate in execution of a utility task, which is carried out in collaboration with the further industrial robot or at least some members of the group of industrial robots, said collaboration including an exchange of operational data over the sidelink. An example utility task is the coordinated transfer of an object by multiple participating industrial robots. Another example is the collecting of map information by multiple participating industrial robots.

公开(公告)号：WO2022117531A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：PCT/EP2021/083477

申请日：2021-11-30

Applicant: ABB SCHWEIZ AG

Inventor： PANG, Zhibo ,  DOBRIJEVIC, Ognjen ,  WIATR, Pawel ,  LANDERNÄS, Krister

IPC: B25J9/16

Abstract: A safety network (100) for supporting mobile robots in a facility (110) comprising: one or more zone safety controllers (121) each operating a zone safety loop (L2) res- ponsible for a predefined zone (120) of the facility, including monitoring zone safety sensors (124) and taking actions in response to detected safety events with effect in the zone only; a fleet management system (113) configured to perform mobile robot route planning and repeatedly associate each of the one or more mobile robots with a responsible zone safety controller; and wherein each zone safety loop (L2) exchanges safety event messages with an onboard safety loop (L3) in each mobile robot (130), for which the zone safety controller is responsible.

公开(公告)号：WO2022117210A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：PCT/EP2020/084675

申请日：2020-12-04

Applicant: ABB SCHWEIZ AG

Inventor： PANG, Zhibo ,  DOBRIJEVIC, Ognjen ,  WIATR, Pawel ,  LANDERNÄS, Krister

IPC: B25J9/16

Abstract: A safety network (100) for supporting mobile robots in a facility (110) comprising: one or more zone safety controllers (121) each operating a zone safety loop (L2) responsible for a predefined zone (120) of the facility, including monitoring zone safety sensors (124) and taking direct action in response to detected safety events with effect in the zone only; a fleet management system (113) configured to perform mobile robot route planning and maintain an association table (101) indicating for each mobile robot a currently responsible zone safety controller; and a safety management system (111) operating a facility safety loop (L1) including obtaining association table updates from the fleet management system (113) and making corresponding information available to affected zone safety controllers, wherein each zone safety loop (L2) exchanges safety event messages with an onboard safety loop (L3) in a mobile robot (130), for which the zone safety controller is currently responsible.