A PC-based open robot control system: PC-ORC

Author

Hong, Keum-Shik ; Kim, Jeom-Goo ; Huh, Chang-Do ; Choi, Kyung-Hyun ; Lee, Suk

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Eng., Pusan Nat. Univ., South Korea

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1901

Abstract

An open architecture manufacturing system pursues integrated manufacturing components on a single platform. Therefore, a particular component can be easily added and/or replaced. In this paper, a modular and object-oriented approach for the PC-based open robot control system is investigated. A standard reference model for controlling robots, which consists of a hardware platform, an operating system module, and various application software modules, is first proposed. Then, a PC-based open robot control (PC-ORC) system, which can reconfigure the control system in various production environments, is developed. The PC-ORC is constructed based upon the object-oriented method. Hence, it allows an easy implementation and modification of various modules. The PC-ORC consists of basic software, application objects, and additional hardware devices on a PC platform. Finally, by applying the proposed PC-ORC to a SCARA robot, the performance of the PC-ORC is examined

Keywords

industrial robots; manufacturing industries; microcomputer applications; object-oriented methods; robot programming; PC-ORC; PC-based open robot control system; SCARA robot; application software modules; control system reconfiguration; hardware platform; integrated manufacturing components; modular approach; object-oriented approach; object-oriented method; open architecture manufacturing system; operating system module; production environments; robot programming; standard reference model; Automatic control; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Hardware; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing systems; Production systems; Robot control; Robotics and automation; Service robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2001. Proceedings. ISIE 2001. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Pusan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7090-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2001.932002

Filename

932002