Patent ID: 9162357
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: B25J,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A control method for a robot system including: a plurality of working units that is placed at different positions in a work area and performs predetermined work; and a robot to which a plurality of unit related processes is set, the unit related processes including moving between respective two of the plurality of working units and executing work corresponding to each of the plurality of working units, the control method comprising: determining, in a case of detecting a first working unit that has come into a work required condition in which work by a worker is required, whether or not an operation of the robot is stopped on a way from a current position of the robot to a position of a second working unit corresponding to a unit related process to be next executed by the robot; stopping the operation of the robot on the way from the current position of the robot to the position of the second working unit, if determining that the operation of the robot is stopped on the way from the current position of the robot to the position of the second working unit; and selecting a unit related process corresponding to a working unit other than the first working unit, from among the plurality of unit related processes, moving the robot until the robot arrives at a position of the working unit corresponding to the selected unit related process, and stopping the operation of the robot at the position of the working unit, if determining that the operation of the robot is not stopped on the way from the current position of the robot to the position of the second working unit.