Abstract
The purpose of this research is based on virtual reality to assisted pick and place tasks. Virtual reality can be utilized to control remote robot for pick and place element. The operator monitored and controlled the situation information of working site by Human Machine Interface. Therefore, we worked in harsh or dangerous environments that thing can be avoided. The procedure to operate mobile robot in virtual reality describes as follow: An experiment site with really experimental equipment is first established. Then, the experimental equipment and scene modeling are input to virtual reality for establishing a environment similar to the reality. Finally, the remote mobile robot is controlled to operate pick and place tasks through wireless communication by the object operation in virtual reality. The robot consists of a movable robot platform and robotic arm. The virtual reality is constructed by EON software; the Human Machine Interface is established by Visual Basic. The wireless connection is equipped the wireless Bluetooth, which is set the PC and PLC controller. With experimental tests to verify the robot in virtual reality and the wireless remote control, the robot could be operated and controlled to successfully complete pick and place tasks in reality by Human Machine Interface.
Highlights
Virtual Reality (VR) has been widely applied to various industries with the development of science and technology, such as education, entertainment, military affairs, space science, industrial design, and manufacturing, etc
The mobile robot is first controlled to move to No 2 work platform, and the clamp of robotic arms with pick and place mechanism is controlled to the top of the plug-in for grabbing the plug-in by opening the clamp of robotic arms and operating the clamp to the proper position
The mobile robot is further moved to No 3 work platform for the assembly of plugging the plug-in to the plug with the same shape, and returned to the start point
Summary
Virtual Reality (VR) has been widely applied to various industries with the development of science and technology, such as education, entertainment, military affairs, space science, industrial design, and manufacturing, etc. Playing a important role in such domains, VR integrates the machinery and becomes the development of human machine interface (HMI). VR is often applied to aided instruction, training, or simulation of manufacturing process and restoring the real scenes. Wrong operation would still occur when robots are set or operated by manpower that danger and machinery breakdown could be caused. For this reason, training with VR replacing the real operation training could reduce the costs resulted from accident and machinery breakdown
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