One fastest growing field of technology is robotics, which soon will be seeing a shift from stand-alone robot controllers to get rid of associated integration headaches to find a way for integrated robot kinematics. Among these there are few names dedicated with all their technical ability to fuse robot controls in one unit, out of which, B&R Industrial Automation claims to be the first in demonstrating possibilities of replacement via software that runs on B&R’s controllers for Generic Motion Control (GMC) system.
A six-axis articulated arm robot powered by DC motors, SCADA and Delta showed how single GMC software can handle not just AC and DC motors but stepper motors and analog outputs too.
After this Rockwell stands with more tightly integrated robot control called ControlLogix platform, it has now involved native kinematics support to put kinematics in the controller’s firmware rather than running as function blocks.
And then the third one among major contributors is Pack Expo who demonstrated its ‘Take on the Technology’. If the work carried on with same pace, we can hope to get rid 70 percent of the robot-related overhead that poses limitation on processing power and intellectual property in the robotics along that separates the controlling units.
Via: DesignNews
