Abstract
The integration of equipment and other devices built into industrial robot cells with modern Ethernet interface technologies and low-cost mass produced devices (such as vision systems, laser scanners, force torque-sensors, PLCs and PDAs etc.) enables integrators to offer more powerful and smarter solutions. Nevertheless, the programming of all these devices efficiently requires very specific knowledge about them, such as their hardware architectures and specific programming languages as well as details about the system's low level communication protocols. To address these issues, this paper describes and analyses the Plug-and-Play architecture. This is one of the most interesting service-oriented architectures (SOAs) available, which exhibits characteristics that are well adapted to industrial robotics cells. To validate their programming features and applicability, a test bed was specially designed. This provides a new graphical service orchestration which was implemented using Workflow Foundation 4 of .NET. The obtained results allowed us to verify that the use of integration schemes based on SOAs reduces the system integration time and is better adapted to industrial robotic cell system integrators.
Highlights
The use of industrial robots in typical manufacturing systems is necessary
This paper describes and analyses the development of industrial robotic cells based on industrial robots by means of the use of SOA
The robot applications’ configurations are very simple because the drag‐and‐drop enables to select and use the activities, primitives and flow control structures required for the application. The aim of this is to fill the gap left for a runtime application which is operator‐oriented allowing for the easy re‐programming of an industrial robotic cell, in addition to previous attempts at simplifying SOA development [14] that where more oriented towards back office development
Summary
Some methods and tools used to develop UPnP services for industrial robot applications will be explained. This paper suggests a second, free software application: the Intel Device Builder for UPnP Technologies, from the library Intel® Digital Home Device Code Wizard [19] This is an application which enables the generation of devices and control points for different platforms from XML descriptions of the services that are generated with the Service Author application. RAB uses the Microsoft® tool VisualStudio .NET in order to create personalized operator interfaces for both PC and FlexPendant They enable the programmer to develop control applications for industrial robots, have access to their signals, modify the value of the variables in a program in RAPID [1] code, load programs, move the robot through RAPID programs, obtain the controller characteristics, have access to the file system of IRC5 and all the operations that can be done on an industrial robot. This enables write and read KAREL variables, write and read numerical TPE registers, access to and the configuring of the input‐output robot signals, load, saving and executing robot programs and the monitoring of their state, access to robot positions and the generating of movement paths, the monitoring alarms and use events, etc
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