System for supporting robot hardware design and method thereof

摘要

The present invention relates to a system and a method for supporting robotic hardware design, and the method comprises: loading a template which has information on the mechanical structure, operating mechanism, power transmission and motion data of robot modules; modifying the information for use in a simulator for further designing the robot modules; analyzing the behavior of each robot module according to respective motion data; applying the resulting data to modify each robot module according to simulation API; and controlling the selection/combination of robot parts for simulator assembly according to API and the resulting templates, databases on which robot parts are required and databases for information on selection/combination of robot parts and assembly of each robot module. The above system and method provide an optimal way to design robot hardware and reduce the time required for robot hardware design.

主权项

1. A system for supporting robot hardware design, the system comprising:
a template, implemented using a processor, said template containing information on the mechanical structure, operating mechanism, power transmission system, and motion data of a robot module to be used by a simulator, implemented on said processor, for designing the robot module; a simulator application programming interface (API), implemented on said processor which loads the template, modifies the information contained in the template, analyzes movements of the robot module based on the motion data, and generates a specification required for each joint of the robot module; a part database, implemented using memory associated with said processor, which stores information on parts for the production of a robot; a part selection/combination unit, implemented on said processor, which selects and combines parts required for the production of the robot module from the part database, wherein the required parts are parts corresponding to the specification of the robot module based on the analysis results of the simulator; a control unit, implemented on said processor, which controls the simulator, the template, the simulator API, the part database, and the part selection/combination unit; wherein the movements contain movement samples of a position and a speed at each joint of the robot module over time; and the robot module comprises at least one module selected from the group consisting of a mobile module, an arm module, and a head module.