Title :
Flexible robotics cells in factory automation: communication concept
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Newcastle upon Tyne Univ., UK
Abstract :
The paper describes the design and implementation of low cost flexible production units for assembly, inspection and other sequential tasks while maintaining an open system architecture. Using device profiling all components of the cell are connected to the installation bus. Bus communications are managed by the production unit controller supervising the cell operation. Information are passed to higher layers of automation via an intelligent gateway
Keywords :
LAN interconnection; data communication; flexible manufacturing systems; industrial robots; manufacturing data processing; message passing; robots; assembly; bus communications; factory automation; flexible robotics cells; information passing; inspection; intelligent gateway; production unit controller; Data communication; Distributed computing; Flexible manufacturing systems; Intelligent systems; LAN interconnection; Manufacturing data processing; Robots;
Conference_Titel :
Control Applications, 1994., Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Glasgow
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1872-2
DOI :
10.1109/CCA.1994.381289
