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Outline of the open robot interface for the network design

In the last few years, industrial robots became stand¬ ard machines in automation industry. Thanks to easy program¬ mable features, different ranges of manipulators sizes and end effectors, advanced sensors and control units technology, the robot exalts the flexibility of production systems. Industrial robots today are doing not only handling of parts as several years ago, but they are performing mechanical tasks, like milling, finishing etc. As these tasks are very- complex for different calculations and optimizations, automatically it appears a need of communication between control units of robots and PC-Workstations. In age of these changes in Japan at 1999 from Japan Robot Association (JARA) - in order to adjust the robots network operation - a project called ORiN-Open Robot Interface for the network was started. This paper outlines the design of this robot interoperability architecture.

industrial robot network standardization; robot controller network interface; open robot interface architecture; industrial software standards

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