US 12,240,128 B2
Integrated navigation system and work instruction method
Kenichiro Toritani, Fukuoka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/605,739
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 24, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/017522
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/217365, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0212346 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. B25J 9/16 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 9/1682 (2013.01) [B25J 9/1653 (2013.01); B25J 9/1661 (2013.01); G05B 2219/39117 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An integrated navigation system configured to support cooperation of a plurality of different robot systems each including at least one automatic work robot operating at a production site, the integrated navigation system comprising:
a job generator configured to generate a job related to production based on information sent from a plurality of production facilities deployed at the production site; and
a task manager configured to generate a task, which is a work command to a first robot system and a second robot system cooperating to each other among the plurality of different robot systems, based on the job, and to send the task to each corresponding robot system,
wherein
the task manager is configured to:
send, as the task, at least one precondition task to the first robot system, and send a conditional task to the second robot system, and
send a start instruction of the conditional task to the second robot system in a case where the precondition task is ended, and
the task manager is configured to, in a case where the task manager receives a notification that the precondition task cannot be executed from the first robot system, correct a type of the conditional task to normal task and send the conditional task whose type is corrected to the second robot system.