Human-friendly Cell-production Support Robot

This research intends to develop the basic concepts of an experimental "human-friendly" robot, which flexibly moves and supports cell-based production. The development concept is to design a robot capable of autonomic transfer and intelligent operation by responding to a call by an operator and performing the instructed operations. In this system, the robot follows the human teacher to learn the safe basic path, and plays back the taught information while independently moving along the taught path. This is called \´playback-type navigation\´ . Using this function, the robot can learn the routes of the parts-supply from a stock yard to the production cells in a short time.