Remote monitoring system for distant location robot

• US 9,588,513 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2015
• Issued: 03/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
• Original Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
• Inventors: Liang, Yanxue, Nagatsuka, Yoshiharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Amin, Bhavesh V
• Application Number:
  US14/590,387
• Publication Number:
  US 20150198945A1
• Time in Patent Office: 791 Days
• Field of Search: 700245-264
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/16 Programme controls programme controls in general G05B19/00, e.g. numerical pogramme controls G05B19/18; recording or playback systems G05B19/42
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/1674 characterised by safety, monitoring, diagnostic
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/41855 by local area network [LAN], network structure
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31334 Database with devices, configuration, of plant
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31457 Factory remote control, monitoring through internet
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31467 Display of operating conditions of machines, workcells, selected programs
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/34038 Web, http, ftp, internet, intranet server
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/36159 Detachable or portable programming unit, display, pc, pda
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/40174 Robot teleoperation through internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 901/46 Sensing device

Abstract

A robot remote monitoring system (6) which monitors at least one robot (10) at a distant location including at least one robot control device (11), a data server (20), and a mobile terminal (30), wherein a robot control device includes a memory part (14) which stores monitoring information which includes an operating state of the robot and alarm information and attribute information which is linked with the monitoring information and a transmitting part (15) which transmits the monitoring information and the attribute information to the data server together, the data server includes a transmitting part (21) which transmits the monitoring information and the attribute information to the mobile terminal together, and the mobile terminal includes a memory part (33) which stores the monitoring information and the attribute information and a display part (34) which uses the attribute information as the basis to display the monitoring information all together.

Claims

1. A robot remote monitoring system which monitors at least one robot at a distant location, comprising

at least one robot control device which controls said at least one robot,

a data server, and

a plurality of mobile terminals, wherein

each of said at least one robot control devices comprises:

a control device memory part which stores monitoring information, which includes an operating state of said robot and alarm information, and attribute information which is linked with said monitoring information and

a control device transmitting part which transmits said monitoring information and said attribute information to said data server together,

said data server comprises a data server transmitting part which transmits said monitoring information and said attribute information to said plurality of mobile terminals together, and

said plurality of mobile terminals each comprise;

a mobile terminal memory part which stores said monitoring information and said attribute information and

a display part which uses said attribute information as the basis to display said monitoring information all together;

a designating part which designates a respective time band for monitoring said robot control devices; and

an acquiring part acquires said monitoring information and said attribute information in the time band which is designated by said designating part.

2. The robot remote monitoring system according to claim 1 wherein

said at least one robot control device comprises a designating part which designates a transmission timing by which said control device transmitting part transmits said monitoring information to said data server,

said control device memory part is designed to store said transmission timing which is designated by said designating part linked with said monitoring information, and

said control device transmitting part transmits said monitoring information and said attribute information to said data server in accordance with said transmission timing.

4. The robot remote monitoring system according to claim 1 wherein said mobile terminal comprises

a designating part which designates said attribute information to be deleted and

a deleting part which deletes said monitoring information which is linked with said attribute information which is designated by said designating part.

5. The robot remote monitoring system according to claim 1,

wherein the time band is designated to occur while the robot is in operation.

3. A robot remote monitoring system which monitors at least one robot at a distant location, comprising

at least one robot control device which controls said at least one robot,

a data server, and

a mobile terminal, wherein

each of said at least one robot control devices comprises:

a control device memory part which stores monitoring information, which includes an operating state of said robot and alarm information, and attribute information which is linked with said monitoring information and

a control device transmitting part which transmits said monitoring information and said attribute information to said data server together,

said data server comprises a data server transmitting part which transmits said monitoring information and said attribute information to said mobile terminal together, and

said mobile terminal comprises

a mobile terminal memory part which stores said monitoring information and said attribute information and

a display part which uses said attribute information as the basis to display said monitoring information all together;

a designating part which designates a time band for monitoring said robot control devices and

an acquiring part acquires said monitoring information and said attribute information in the time band which is designated by said designating part, wherein said mobile terminal further comprises

a designating part which designates an update interval of said monitoring information and said attribute information and,

a processing part which uses a time which is required from transmission to display of said monitoring information and said attribute information from said data server and a number of pieces of said monitoring information as the basis to calculate an average processing time,

the system designed to multiply the number of pieces of said monitoring information and said average processing time to calculate a required processing time and to update only monitoring information which includes a predetermined order or more of priority when said required processing time is longer than the update interval which is designated by said designating part.