Patent ID: 8054027

Claim:
A robot operating range setting device comprising: a setting arrangement for setting operating ranges of each shaft and a working tool of the robot; a storage arrangement for storing an inertial running distance of the robot decided by at least one of the operating speed of the robot and the weight of the working tool; an arriving range calculation arrangement for calculating an arriving range to which the each shaft and the working tool of the robot arrives according to the operating range, which has been set by the setting arrangement, and the inertial running distance stored by the storage arrangement; an interference confirmation arrangement for confirming whether or not the arriving range calculated by the arriving range calculation arrangement includes an interference portion, in which the arriving range interfere with the peripheral portion of the robot; and an adjustment arrangement for adjusting the operating range of the each shafts and the working tool of the robot if the interference confirmation arrangement confirms that the arriving range includes the interference portion; wherein the adjustment arrangement makes a new operating range by extracting one portion of the operating range corresponding to the interference portion and moving the one portion toward the robot by a predetermined distance and adjusts the operating range of the working tool.