Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090157222 | NETWORK-BASED ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CONTENT TRANSMISSION/EXECUTION THEREIN - A network-based robot system for performing content transmission/execution includes a content management unit for managing contents created in a tree-like, hierarchical structure, and one or more robots connected to the content management unit over a network. Each robot requests the content management unit to provide a content to be executed by the robot, downloads the content from the content management unit via the network, and determines a content execution plan to execute the content depending on specification of the robot. | 06-18-2009 |
20100115524 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THREAD PROCESSING ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENTS - An apparatus for thread processing robot software components includes a data port unit for storing input data in a buffer and then processing the data in a periodic execution mode or in a dedicated execution mode; an event port unit for processing an input event in a passive execution mode; and a method port unit for processing an input method call in the passive execution mode by calling a user-defined method corresponding to the method call. In the periodic execution mode, the data is processed by using an execution thread according to a period of a corresponding component. In the dedicated execution mode, a dedicated thread for the data is created and the data is processed by using the dedicated thread. | 05-06-2010 |
20100161836 | METHOD PORT ARRANGEMENT AND CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF FOR ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENT - A configuration method of a method port arrangement for robot software component includes: generating a requester method port module and a provider method port module; generating a requester method module and a provider method module depending on application of a method module to be generated in the component; registering the requester method module in the requester method port module and the provider method module in the provider method port module; and registering, in a method port management module, the requester method port module and the provider method port module where the requester method module and the provider method module have been registered. The method further includes establishing the requester method port module to be operated by interconnecting the requester method port module and the provider method port module; and executing input and output operations to/from the requester method port or the provider method port depending on application of the component. | 06-24-2010 |
20100168911 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ROBOT COMPONENTS - An apparatus for managing robot components in an intelligent robot includes a robot application including a plurality of robot components, a robot application management tool that manages the operation of the robot application, monitors the status caused by the operations of the robot application and information on the robot components, a lifecycle manager that manages lifecycles of the robot components under the management of the robot application management tool, and an operation system that transfers a sensing signal about peripheral environment generated from the sensor to the robot application, and transfers an execution signal from the robot application to the actuator. | 07-01-2010 |
20100316039 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RANGING CODE - An apparatus for generating a ranging code extracts a ranging code in each ranging mode, using a ranging code table storing one period data in bytes of the PN code according to a reference UL PermBase number, and an offset table that stores byte offsets for the start positions of the PN codes of the reference UL PermBase number and the other plurality of UL PermBase numbers and bit offsets in the byte including the start positions, on the basis of the PN code according to the reference UL PermBase number. | 12-16-2010 |
20110054684 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING/ACQUIRING OPERATION RIGHT OF MOVING ROBOT IN MULTI-OPERATOR MULTI-ROBOT ENVIRONMENT - In an operating system having a first controller configured to manage one or more robots included in a first region, and a second controller configured to manage one or more robots included in a second region adjacent to the first region, a method for enabling the second controller to acquire an operation right of N robots (where N is a natural number equal to or greater than 1) operated by the first controller, the method includes: transmitting a control mapping status (CMS) containing an operation right change message to the first controller, upon reception of an operation right request signal from a user of the N robots; and checking a connection status of the N robots, upon reception of the CMS containing the operation right change message from the first controller, and acquiring an operation right by providing CMS acquisition information and control mapping information to the robots included in the second region. | 03-03-2011 |
20110153073 | FAULT TOLERANCE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENT - An apparatus for performing fault tolerance against a failure occurring during driving robot software components includes: a component executor for executing the robot software components, which are assigned with one thread from an operating system and have a same priority and cycle, by using the assigned thread; and an executor monitor for periodically monitoring the operation of the component executor and determining whether or not there is a failure in the robot software components executed by the component executor. The apparatus further includes: an executor manager for generating the component executor which is assigned with the robot software components having the same priority and cycle and, when the executor monitor determines that there is a failure in the execution of the robot software components, generating a new component executor. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153079 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING AND MONITORING ROBOT APPLICATION AND ROBOT DRIVEN THEREBY - Provided is a technology that effectively distributes and monitors the execution of robot application to allow a plurality of robots to perform tasks in cooperation with each other. An apparatus for distributing and monitoring robot application according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a robot information manager managing information of a plurality of robots constituted by a plurality of nodes classified by a driving function; a robot application generator generating the robot application combining a plurality of components for driving the plurality of robots; and a robot application controller distributing the robot application to the plurality of robots on the basis of the information of the plurality of robots and receiving execution monitoring information of the robot application. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154361 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COORDINATING OPERATION ACTION OF ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENT - Provided are an apparatus and a method of controlling the execution of components without an additional port or messaging for applying the dependency among the components. The apparatus comprises: a profile analyzing unit analyzing execution dependency information of components defined in an execution coordination profile; a component managing unit arranging the components in accordance with the execution sequence of the components caused by the execution dependency information; an execution coordination managing unit determining whether or not each of the components executes the operation on the basis of the execution dependency information of the corresponding component managed by the execution coordination units allocated to the components, respectively; and an operation executing unit executing the operation of each of the components in accordance with the determination result of the execution coordination manager. | 06-23-2011 |
20120072020 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURING ROBOT COMPONENTS - An apparatus for reconfiguring robot components in an environment that includes a robot terminal apparatus, including a plurality of internal components, and external components, interacting with the internal components, includes a situation monitoring unit for checking whether there has been a change in a situation of the robot terminal apparatus. Further, the apparatus includes a component availability analysis unit for determining at least one available component that belongs to the internal components or the external components; and a component search unit for searching for at least one component based on results of the determination of the component availability analysis unit. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a component dependency analysis unit for analyzing a dependency relationship between the component found by the component search unit and the component determined to be available by the component availability analysis unit; and a component reconfiguration unit for reconfiguring a connection relationship between the components. | 03-22-2012 |
20120096471 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING COMPONENTS BASED ON THREAD POOL - An apparatus for executing components based on a thread pool includes a component executor configured to have a set priority and period, to register components having the set priority and period, and to execute the registered components. Further, the apparatus for executing the components based on the thread pool includes a thread pool configured to allocate a thread for executing the component executor; and an Operating System (OS) configured to create an event for allocating the thread to the component executor in each set period. | 04-19-2012 |
20130067429 | COMPONENT COMPOSING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING VIRTUAL COMPONENTS IN COMPONENT-BASED ROBOT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT - A component composing apparatus using virtual components in component-based robot software development, includes a component repository configured to store a plurality of components having at least one port; and an application diagram generation unit configured to create an application diagram by selecting the components stored in the component repository. Further, the component composing apparatus includes an information repository configured to store the components within the application diagram and port information of the components within the application diagram and port connection information between the components within the application diagram; and a virtual component processing unit configured to create the virtual components for components selected by a user among the components within the application diagram. | 03-14-2013 |
20130159979 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING EMULATION ON ROBOTIC APPLICATION - An apparatus for performing emulation on a robotic application includes an emulation unit configured to perform emulation on a symbol and function corresponding to a control command of a robotic application. Further, the apparatus includes a robot unit configured to register the symbol and function to the emulation unit, and control a device of a robot; and a robotic application control unit configured to control the symbol and function of at least one robot by executing the robotic application. | 06-20-2013 |
20140114475 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING DEVICE RESOURCES BETWEEN ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENTS - In an apparatus for sharing device resources between robot software user components, a callback module of a robot software user component receives data forwarded from a device set to be shared between the robot software user components, a device service surrogate has a connection with a framework to forward data to the device or forward data received through the callback module to a user program of the user components; a device service surrogate manager manages the device service surrogate of each of the user components; a device channel has a connection with the device to receive data therefrom and transmit data thereto; and a device channel manager manages the device channel and connect the device channel and the device service surrogate. | 04-24-2014 |
20140136902 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING ERROR IN ROBOT COMPONENTS - An apparatus for processing an error of a robot component includes an event reception unit configured to receive event information; and an error detection unit configured to analyze the event information to determine whether there is a component where an error occurs from among the multiple components. | 05-15-2014 |
20140149963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINING ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENTS - In accordance with an embodiment, when robot service developers develop the component-based robot software, they are able to select a tight coupling or a loose coupling to develop the component-based robot software and connect the components in compliance with the coupling types that are supported by the components in the component combination tool for combining the components. Therefore, it is possible to make a robot application system in which the components having different coupling types are used all together. | 05-29-2014 |