US 12,249,245 B2
Intermediation device and intermediating method using the same
Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Kobe (JP); Masayuki Kamon, Akashi (JP); Shigetsugu Tanaka, Akashi (JP); and Yoshihiko Maruyama, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hyogo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/267,476
Filed by KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hyogo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 9, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/031678
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/032264, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-151917 (JP), filed on Aug. 10, 2018; application No. 2019-105749 (JP), filed on Jun. 5, 2019; and application No. 2019-105750 (JP), filed on Jun. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0323168 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. G09B 19/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G09B 19/24 (2006.01)
CPC G09B 19/00 (2013.01) [G05B 19/41865 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06311 (2013.01); G06Q 10/063112 (2013.01); G09B 19/24 (2013.01)] 46 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intermediation device held by an intermediary and connected to a plurality of manipulation terminals operated by a plurality of remote workers and a plurality of robots held by one or more robot holders through a network in which data communication is possible, the intermediation device comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive, from the plurality of robots, recruitments of the remote workers who operate the plurality of robots and perform a plurality of works, each of the recruitments including information indicating a robot type and information indicating a content of work,
post the recruitments of the remote workers who perform the plurality of works on a site on the network of the intermediary who holds the intermediation device, and
when the processor receives applications for the recruitments, through the site, from the plurality of manipulation terminals, the processor is configured to select, based on the plurality of applications in comparison to the information included in the recruitments, one or more robots and one or more manipulation terminals as one or more selected robots and one or more selected manipulation terminals, and connects the one or more selected manipulation terminals to the one or more selected robots so that the one or more selected robots are manipulatable by the one or more selected manipulation terminals, each of the applications including information indicating a robot type, information indicating a content of work and information indicating a type of manipulation terminal,
wherein
each of the plurality of robots operates according to an operating command including an individual operating command,
each of the plurality of manipulation terminals is provided with a manipulation key,
when a manipulation signal corresponding to the manipulation key is received from the selected manipulation terminal for the selected manipulation terminal and the selected robot connected with each other among the one or more selected manipulation terminals and the one or more selected robots, the processor is configured to convert the manipulation signal into the individual operating command and sends the individual operating command to the selected robot,
the plurality of manipulation keys include a move key configured to move a manipulation target and a function key used for multiple purposes,
the operating command includes, as the individual operating command, a position command for instructing a position of a wrist part of each of the robots, and an end effector operating command for controlling operation of an end effector attached to the wrist part of each of the robots, and
the processor is configured to convert the manipulation signal corresponding to the move key into the position command and converts the manipulation signal corresponding to the function key into the end effector operating command.