US 11,755,003 B2
Autonomous task management industrial robot
Yi-Chu Chang, Farmington Hills, MI (US); and Heming Chen, Novi, MI (US)
Assigned to HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/490,651.
Prior Publication US 2023/0103026 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/41895 (2013.01) [G05B 19/4182 (2013.01); G05B 19/41865 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operation of a robot configured to work on a first process and a second process, the method comprising:
receiving sensor data, wherein the sensor data indicates a status of one or more of the first process and the second process; and
determining that the sensor data indicates that the first process is waiting on the robot, in response to determining that the sensor data indicating that the first process is waiting on the robot, determining that a buffer feeding into the second process is full, in response to determining that the buffer feeding into the second process is full, determining that the sensor data indicates that the second process is waiting on the robot, in response to determining that the sensor data indicating that the second process is waiting on the robot, determining that another buffer feeding into a third process is not full, in response to determining that the another buffer feeding into the third process is not full, controlling the robot to work on the second process to completion.