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Desarrollo de una aplicación flexible a medida para robotOther
Development of a flexible application customized for robot
A. Pereira, e. Rodriguez, j. l. DiéguezIPF, Vigo, Campus Torrecedeira EUITI area
University of Vigo, Spain
Tel + 34 986 813783, apereira@uvigo.es
01/12/2002 1. Introduction
Within the work carried out for the development and distributed control of a cell of production constituted by robot and CNC lathe, we found the need for custom software application to be able to control the robot Mitsubishi RV-M1 which are available in the laboratory of the EUITI.
As prerequisite has developed the DNC application that controls the CNC lathe and we have the need for the realization of the control of the Robot to allow integration [1], [2] and to take control of information in a distributed mannertaking into account the implementation of new Internet-based technologies.
In this work the aim is the realization of an interface that allows comfortable handling and robot programming.
2 Experimental
The pilot phase is carried out a preliminary study for the identification and assessment of language or programming languages to be used, for the development of the working environment.
After selecting the tools to use, is the design of the communication via RS232 module, [3] and it attends to all the needs of information transmission.
As a requirement, you must include the flexibility to incorporate nevas libraries to allow to work with other robots, or devices. Secondly it analyzes and determines the needs of programming and remote control in order to develop the working environment at the station.
3. Results and discussion
Objective a posteriori arise distributed communication and integration with other applications developed that would allow access according to different geographic distributions. In our case would be reduced to a simulation of access from the classroom CAD/CAM, with communication to an application server, which would execute the implementation of control.
4 Conclusions
This application allows us to use it for the development of utilities of remote control and distributed control in order to carry out an integrated manufacturing istema based on WWW.
5 References
[1] Paul Rodgers A, Husor Avon P, Caldwell Nicholas H.M, 1999, "design support using distributed Web-Based AI Tool", Research in Engineering Design.
[2] Chang Hsin-Chi, Lu Wen F, 1999, "WWW-Based Collaborative System for Integrated Design and Manufacturing", Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications
[3] Manual Mitsubishi Industrial Micro robot System. Model VR-M1. BFP-A5191EB.
