Patent ID: 11964399
Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A manipulator comprising:
a robot arm configured to perform a gripping operation on a target object;
a target object recognition device comprising:
a plurality of calculation processing circuits configured to calculate an attitude state of the target object in a prescribed space region in which a plurality of target objects is able to be arranged, each calculation processing circuit calculating the attitude state of the target object using a different technique;
a state recognition circuit configured to recognize a layout state of all of the plurality of target objects arranged in the space region;
a method determination circuit configured to determine a method for using calculation results of the plurality of calculation processing circuits depending on a recognition result of the state recognition circuit; and
a target object recognition circuit configured to recognize the attitude state of the target object by the method for using the calculation results determined by the method determination circuit; and
a control circuit configured to control an operation of the robot arm based on a target object recognition result of the target object recognition device.