NAME Software library for the development of real-time ROS-based controllers

DESCRIPTION

This library for the development of ROS-based real-time controllers offers a software package for generating applications based on an advanced centralized architecture and allowing advanced strategies for supplementing the limits of the controllers' capabilities from robot manufacturers. This software employs Open Source technologies that enable the integration, coordination, and synchronization of the robots of the different manufacturers (KUKA, UR, ABB, among others) with industrial processes and external sensors. Therefore, the library offers a framework that integrates all industrial autonomous process machines with collaborative production. This library is characterized by its ability to manage the robot control and its synchronization with other real-time processes. Thus, it is guaranteed that the deterministic response of the robot control algorithms, being able to guarantee the duration of cycle times during the operation and synchronization of the robot. In turn, this framework eases the synchronization between the processes of industrial machines and the operations carried out by industrial robots. Therefore, the entire industrial process is synchronized and integrated into a real-time control framework for robotic systems

FIELDS OF APPLICATION

Advanced manipulation with robots

Flexibility for robotic applications

Internal logistics with mobile robots

Manufacture and assembly of components by robots

MOST OUTSTANDING EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS

  • Advanced control based on sensors and visions module

    (1) Module for advanced perception and segmentation control algorithms integration, (2) module for robot actual state integration to productive process data
    (3) module for advanced sensor-based control for collaborative and industrial scenarios integration.

  • Real-time control and synchronization module

    (1) Real-time and deterministic robot control, communication, and synchronization
    (2) Industrial process control equipment and machines synchronization.

SERVICES OFFERED BY THE ASSET

Advanced vision coordination applications to command the robot

Integration of intelligent vision algorithms into the robot control for improving or increasing the flexibility of different manufacturing processes. Thus, the robot is integrated with vision systems, acting as a single entity for the industrial process as a whole.

Pick and place, palletizing and robotized polishing applications

This control software library is designed to develop and implement advanced pick and place, palletizing, or polishing applications, among others. It is based on real-time and intelligent controllers that allow the robot to adapt to the process.

Robotic component manufacturing and assembly applications

This library enables intelligent control in classic manufacturing processes where the robot assembles components or different part sets.

ENTITY MANAGING THE ASSET

ENTITY MANAGING THE ASSET
IKERLAN S.C.
Contact person:
Aron Pujana Arrese
apujana@ikerlan.es