Device and method for displaying a change in the position of an object

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9563195-B2
Application number	US-201113579625-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2011
Priority date	Mar 15, 2010
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

A display device that displays an error between an instructed command position of a specific portion of a control target and a response position of the specific portion in a manner easily understandable to a user is described. The display device acquires a response position of the specific portion and calculates a difference in position of the command position and the response position. The display device displays a spatial trajectory based on the command position or a spatial trajectory based on the response position. The display device also displays each spatial trajectory in a mode where a portion of the spatial trajectory of the command position corresponding to the selected mark and a portion of the spatial trajectory of the response position corresponding to the relevant portion of the spatial trajectory of the command position are enlarged at a same magnification.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display device for displaying a change in position of a specific portion of a control target on a screen as a trajectory, the control target being driven based on a series of command values output by execution of a motion program, the display device comprising a processor configured to execute a program to control the display device to operate as:
a first position acquiring unit configured to acquire a series of command positions, which are positions of the specific portion, based on the series of command values when mass and friction of the control target are ignored;
a second position acquiring unit configured to acquire a series of response positions corresponding to the series of command positions, the series of response positions being at least one of a series of positions of the specific portion based on the series of command values when a simulation taking into consideration at least one of the mass and the friction of the control target is performed and a series of positions of the specific portion measured when the control target has been driven based on the series of command values;
an error calculating section configured to calculate a difference in position of the command position and the response position corresponding to the command position;
a determination section configured to determine whether or not the calculated difference is greater than or equal to a predefined threshold value to indicate that an error has occurred;
a first display data creating section configured to create data for displaying on the screen at least one of a spatial trajectory formed by the series of command positions and a spatial trajectory formed by the series of response positions, and for displaying on the screen a first mark indicating the error has occurred in a portion of the spatial trajectory in which the calculated difference is greater than or equal to the predefined threshold value and configuring the first mark to surround the portion of the displayed spatial trajectory;
an accepting unit configured to accept a selecting operation of the first mark;
a second display data creating section configured to create data for displaying each spatial trajectory on the screen in a mode where a portion of a spatial trajectory of the command position corresponding to the selected first mark and a portion of a spatial trajectory of the response position corresponding to the portion of the spatial trajectory of the command position are enlarged at a same magnification, the mode being such that the enlarged portions of the spatial trajectories are overlapping each other; and
a display control unit configured to display on the screen data created by the first display data creating section and data created by the second display data creating section;
wherein:
the second display data creating section is further configured to create data for displaying, on the screen, a second mark indicating the command position at a specified time and a third mark indicating the response position at the specified time; and
the display control unit is further configured to:
display the second mark and the third mark when displaying the data created by the second display data creating section on the screen; and
display positions of the second mark and the third mark which are changed according to the change of the specified time when the specified time is changed.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the second display data creating section is configured to create the data so that a color of the enlarged spatial trajectory of the response position changes based on a magnitude of the calculated difference when creating data for displaying the spatial trajectory on the screen; and
the display control unit is configured to display, on the screen, the enlarged spatial trajectory of the response position with the color based on the magnitude of the calculated difference when displaying data created by the second display data creating section on the screen.

3. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the second display data creating section is configured to create the data so that a display magnification of the spatial trajectory becomes respectively a specified display magnification in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction in the screen when creating data for displaying the spatial trajectory on the screen; and
the display control unit is configured to display, on the screen, the spatial trajectory enlarged at the specified display magnification in each of the first direction and the second direction.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a third display data creating section configured to create:
data for displaying a two-dimensional graph having a first axis as time or a displacement of the specific portion, and a second axis as the command position, a velocity of the specific portion calculated based on the command position, the response position, or a velocity of the specific portion calculated based on the response position; and
data for displaying the portion in which the calculated difference is greater than or equal to a predefined threshold value on the two-dimensional graph, and the data for displaying a fourth mark, which is a target of the selecting operation accepted by the accepting unit, wherein:
the display control unit is configured to display the two-dimensional graph and the fourth mark on the screen; and
the second display data creating section is configured to create data for displaying the trajectory in the enlarged mode for a portion corresponding to the selected fourth mark when the selecting operation of the fourth mark is accepted.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a third display data creating section configured to create:
data for displaying a two-dimensional graph having a first axis as time or a displacement of the specific portion, and a second axis as the magnitude of the calculated difference; and
data for displaying a portion in which the calculated difference is greater than or equal to a predefined threshold value on the two-dimensional graph, the data displaying a fourth mark, which is a target of the selecting operation accepted by the accepting unit, wherein:
the display control unit is configured to display the two-dimensional graph and the fourth mark on the screen; and
the second display data creating section is configured to create data for displaying the trajectory in the enlarged mode for a portion corresponding to the selected fourth mark when the selecting operation of the fourth mark is accepted.

6. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a third display data creating section configured to create:
data for displaying a two-dimensional graph having a first axis as time or a displacement of the specific portion, and a second axis as a distance from a spatial trajectory of the command position to a spatial trajectory of the response position taken along a direction perpendicular to a tangential direction of the spatial trajectory of the command position; and
data for displaying a portion in which the calculated difference is greater than or equal to a predefined threshold value on the two-dimensional graph, the data displaying a fourth mark, which is a target of the selecting operation accepted by the accepting unit, wherein:
the display control unit is configured to display the two-dimensional graph and the fourth mark on the screen; and
the second display data creating section is configured to create data for displaying the trajectory in the enlarged mode for a portion corresponding to the selected fourth mark when the selecting operation of the fourth mark is accepted.

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Assignees

• Moriya Toshihiro
• Omron Tateisi Electronics Co

Inventors

• Moriya Toshihiro

Classifications

• G05B19/4069 Primary

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