Object as a model of intelligent robot in the virtual workspace

Modern Technologies in Industrial Engineering 2015

Foit, K.^1 ; Gwiazda, A.^1 ; Banas, W.^1 ; Sekala, A.^1 ; Hryniewicz, P.^1

Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Engineering Processes Automation and Integrated Manufacturing Systems, ul. Konarskiego 18a, Gliwice

44-100, Poland^1

关键词: Machining Process;    Manipulated objects;    Manufacturing process;    Object oriented model;    Production process;    Production system;    Programmable controls;    Virtual workspaces;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/95/1/012108/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/95/1/012108

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The contemporary industry requires that every element of a production line will fit into the global schema, which is connected with the global structure of business. There is the need to find the practical and effective ways of the design and management of the production process. The term effective should be understood in a manner that there exists a method, which allows building a system of nodes and relations in order to describe the role of the particular machine in the production process. Among all the machines involved in the manufacturing process, industrial robots are the most complex ones. This complexity is reflected in the realization of elaborated tasks, involving handling, transporting or orienting the objects in a work space, and even performing simple machining processes, such as deburring, grinding, painting, applying adhesives and sealants etc. The robot also performs some activities connected with automatic tool changing and operating the equipment mounted on the wrist of the robot. Because of having the programmable control system, the robot also performs additional activities connected with sensors, vision systems, operating the storages of manipulated objects, tools or grippers, measuring stands, etc. For this reason the description of the robot as a part of production system should take into account the specific nature of this machine: the robot is a substitute of a worker, who performs his tasks in a particular environment. In this case, the model should be able to characterize the essence of employment in the sufficient way. One of the possible approaches to this problem is to treat the robot as an object, in the sense often used in computer science. This allows both: to describe certain operations performed on the object, as well as describing the operations performed by the object. This paper focuses mainly on the definition of the object as the model of the robot. This model is confronted with the other possible descriptions. The results can be further used during designing of the complete manufacturing system, which takes into account all the involved machines and has the form of an object-oriented model..