Patent ID: 9132550
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: B25J,G05B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for managing robot components in a robot, the apparatus comprising: a component monitoring unit configured to monitor a state of the robot components; a breakdown decision unit configured to judge whether or not any robot components are broken down based on the monitoring results, and generate breakdown information corresponding to the breakdown decision results, wherein the breakdown information comprises at least one of a type of the breakdown, importance of the breakdown, and an identifier of a component which has caused the breakdown; a recovery policy management unit configured to choose a recovery policy model necessary to recover the breakdown from among a plurality of available recovery policy models using the breakdown information; and a breakdown recovery unit configured to recover the broken robot component based on the chosen recovery policy model; wherein the recovery policy model management unit further is configured to: select a recovery policy node corresponding to the type of breakdown; select the recovery policy model contained in the selected breakdown recovery policy node using the breakdown information; determine whether or not a parent recovery policy node exists among a plurality of recovery policy nodes when the recovery policy model is not selected; and select the parent recovery policy node as the recovery policy node when the parent recovery policy node exists.