Robotic assembly based in real-time communications equipment for factory LANs

Author

Marino, P. ; Poza, F. ; Nogueira, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Technol., Vigo Univ., Spain

fYear

1997

fDate

7-9 Aug 1997

Firstpage

122

Lastpage

127

Abstract

Shop floor communications networks are evolving towards the increased use of open connecting equipment, that meets standard protocols, under a client/server architecture. An implementation of a such communications server, based in a low cost PC with multiport and field bus cards, is presented. The first prototype has been designed as a black box transparent to flexible manufacturing plants, connecting up to sixteen SCARA robots and thirty programmable logic controllers

Keywords

assembling; client-server systems; industrial control; industrial robots; local area networks; microcomputer applications; open systems; protocols; real-time systems; robots; PLC; SCARA robots; client/server architecture; communications server; factory LAN; field bus card; low-cost PC; multiport card; open connecting equipment; programmable logic controllers; real-time communications equipment; robotic assembly; shop floor communications networks; standard protocols; Communication equipment; Communication networks; Communication standards; Costs; Flexible manufacturing systems; Joining processes; Network servers; Protocols; Prototypes; Robotic assembly;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Assembly and Task Planning, 1997. ISATP 97., 1997 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Marina del Rey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3820-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISATP.1997.615395

Filename

615395