Title :
A study on a new robot simulation and monitoring system based on PC
Author :
Wang, Di ; Chen, Yimin ; Fang, Minglun ; He, Yongyi
Author_Institution :
CIMS & Robotic Center, Shanghai Univ., China
Abstract :
A new robot simulation and monitoring system has been developed. Running on Pentium II PCs with Windows 95 operation system and being developed with OpenGL, this system has the capacity of real-time simulating the motion of an industrial robot through 3D animation with ray tracing. Connected with the robot controller via network, users can monitor the behavior of the robot dynamically or even directly control the action of the robot if necessary. By comparing with the traditional off-line programming system, the framework and the functions of this system and the hardware and software platform of the system are described. The principle of 3D-motion simulation and both the geometry modeling and kinematics modeling are discussed in more detail. Finally, the paper summarizes the characteristics of the system and discusses the extension prospect of the system
Keywords :
computational geometry; computer animation; computerised monitoring; digital simulation; industrial robots; ray tracing; real-time systems; robot kinematics; solid modelling; 3D animation; 3D-motion simulation; OpenGL; digital simulation; geometry modeling; industrial robot; kinematics; monitoring; ray tracing; real-time systems; Animation; Electrical equipment industry; Functional programming; Monitoring; Personal communication networks; Ray tracing; Real time systems; Robot control; Service robots; Solid modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation, 2000. Proceedings of the 3rd World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Hefei
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5995-X
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2000.863460
