A distributed planning and control system for industrial robots

  • A practical distributed planning and control system for industrial robots is presented. The hierarchical concept consists of three independent levels. Each level is modularly implemented and supplies an application interface (API) to the next higher level. At the top level, we propose an automatic motion planner. The motion planner is based on a best-first search algorithm and needs no essential off-line computations. At the middle level, we propose a PC-based robot control architecture, which can easily be adapted to any industrial kinematics and application. Based on a client/server-principle, the control unit estab-lishes an open user interface for including application specific programs. At the bottom level, we propose a flexible and modular concept for the integration of the distributed motion control units based on the CAN bus. The concept allows an on-line adaptation of the control parameters according to the robot's configuration. This implies high accuracy for the path execution and improves the overall system performance.

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Author:Christian Wurll, Dominik Henrich, Heinz Wörn, Jan Schloen, Martin Damm, Wolfgang Meier
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-9776
Document Type:Article
Language of publication:English
Year of Completion:1998
Year of first Publication:1998
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2000/04/06
Tag:AG-RESY; PARO; PC-based robot control; SKALP; client/server-architecture; distributed control system; robot motion planning; search algorithm
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Informatik
DDC-Cassification:0 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 004 Informatik
Collections:AG RESY
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011