Development of a technology orientated programming system for industrial robots

Abstract

The disassembly of used goods is characterized by strongly varying quantities and a wide range of different kinds and states of products. Furthermore, the requirements of a disassembly system are determined by the disassembly object, by the process as well as by the disassembly system itself. As a result of the high labor costs in industrial countries and the huge amount of used goods, an automated disassembly is favored for the industrial disassembly. New methods for the programming of industrial robots have to be developed because the costs for a programming of small lot sizes are a key factor of the economic efficiency of small and medium sized enterprises (SME). In this paper an off-line programming environment for programming of industrial robots in the field of automated disassembly is presented. The exemplary implementation is realized at a pilot disassembly system, which was built up at the Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fabrikbetrieb (IWF) of the Technische Universität Berlin.

Control layer for multi-vendor industrial robot interaction providing integration of supervisory process control and multifunctional control units

“…Further trends towards decentralized or distributed control of industrial robots emerge highly-flexible robot control tasks, e.g. modular path and motion planning and automated programming [1]. Using industrial robots of different manufactures in a conjunct production process constitutes the need for an integrative and flexible interface to establish a data exchange between a superordinate control system and various robot controllers.…”