Aplicación de la Arquitectura Orientada a Servicios Universal Plug-and-Play para facilitar la Integración de Robots Industriales en Líneas de Producción

Abstract

The equipment integraton and devices in industrial robotic cells with Ethernet interface technologies and low cost devices such as vision systems, laser cameras, force sensors, programmable controllers, PDAs, etc. allows the development of powerful and intelligent solutions. However, the efficient programming of these devices require specific knowledge about them, their gardware architecture, specific programming languages and details of specific low-level protocol communication systems. The article describes and uses a service-oriented architecture: Universal Plug-and-Play. It is one of the most interesting and best adapted to robotic cells. Using this architecture, in this article it has been developed a test based on two industrial robots. The results show clearly that the use of schemes based on SOA reduces integration times, adapting very well to the integration of industrial robotic cells.