US PATENT SUBCLASS 318 / 568.11
.~.~.~ Multifunction manipulator (i.e., Robot)


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318 /   HD   ELECTRICITY: MOTIVE POWER SYSTEMS

560  DF  POSITIONAL SERVO SYSTEMS (E.G., SERVOMECHANISMS) {23}
567  DF  .~ Program- or pattern-controlled systems {3}
568.1  DF  .~.~ With program recording or composing means {1}
568.11.~.~.~ Multifunction manipulator (i.e., Robot) {9}
568.12  DF  .~.~.~.~> Mobile robot
568.13  DF  .~.~.~.~> With particular program teaching method {1}
568.15  DF  .~.~.~.~> With particular interpolation means
568.16  DF  .~.~.~.~> With particular sensing device
568.17  DF  .~.~.~.~> With multimode control (e.g., course-fine, position-force, etc.) {1}
568.19  DF  .~.~.~.~> With particular coordinate transformation means
568.2  DF  .~.~.~.~> With plural control systems (e.g., the interaction of plural processors to control the plural joints of a single robot): {1}
568.22  DF  .~.~.~.~> With particular compensation (e.g., gain, offset, etc.) {1}
568.24  DF  .~.~.~.~> With reliability enhancement means (e.g., monitoring, redundant circuits, etc.) {1}


DEFINITION

Classification: 318/568.11

Multifunction manipulator (i.e., robot):

(under subclass 568.1) Subject matter wherein the system is a reprogrammable multifunction manipulator designed to move devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of changeable tasks on a repetitive basis without human intervention.

(1) Note. A robot usually has an arm (elongated appendage) which normally has three or more degrees of freedom.

(2) Note. A robot must be reprogrammable to perform a variety of different tasks. Thus, a numerically controlled machine tool, which may have an arm, but which is designed to perform only a fixed set of tasks, is not a robot.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

395, Information Processing System Organization,

80+, for robot control.

901, Robots, appropriate subclasses for cross-reference art collections of robot motion controls.