A distributed control architecture for multi-robots systems design and implementation

This paper deals with the problem of multiple robot control systems, as a main component of the control of flexible manufacturing systems problem. First step was the establishing of the inter-process communication between both server (a V+ operating system running controller) and client sides (a windows OS running computer). The inter-process communication allowed a full control of robots using a unique client application. The model is brought to application through a four robots manufacturing cell. The inter-process communication is made via Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). A client application is developed using C# language presenting a user interface (UI). This UI offers several functionalities including a teaching monitor and a sequences´ editor.