Remote control of a multirobot infrastructure for E-learning training sessions

The paper describes a scientific project aiming to build up an R&D collaboration portal and communication platform for robot integration in on demand, flexible manufacturing structures and hands-on team training. The project offer a solution to control remotely a fault tolerant robotized manufacturing cell. The platform is a software product designed to support multiple remote connections with a number of Adept Technology V+ robot-vision controllers (masters over manufacturing workstations), either located in a local network or via Internet. Additionally, allows the transfer of multiple captured pictures to an IBM xSeries server for high-speed, parallel processing of images according to existing or new algorithms (enhancement, feature extraction for part flow management, guidance vision for robots (GVR), and automated visual inspection (AVI) from measurements based on vision tools).