Control of robots and machine tools with an extended factory cloud

Author

Vick, Axel ; Horn, Christian ; Rudorfer, Martin ; Kruger, Jorg

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Autom. Technol., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany

fYear

2015

fDate

27-29 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes our concept for control of robots and machine tools through a private factory cloud which is dynamically extended by additional public resources. After discussing the opportunities and drawbacks of the virtualization of robot controllers (RC) and software programmable logic controllers (soft-PLC), we present first experiences with the setup of private and public infrastructures. Finally, we introduce our experimental design for investigating the requirements of machine control algorithms regarding availability, dependability and realtime capability in local and public configurations.

Keywords

cloud computing; control engineering computing; industrial robots; machine control; machine tools; programmable controllers; virtualisation; RC virtualization; extended factory cloud; machine control algorithms; machine tool control; private factory cloud; robot controller virtualization; soft-PLC; software programmable logic controllers; Cloud computing; Manufacturing; Planning; Production facilities; Real-time systems; Service robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Factory Communication Systems (WFCS), 2015 IEEE World Conference on

Conference_Location

Palma de Mallorca

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160575

Filename

7160575