Abstract
We present a parallel control architecture for industrial robot cells. It is based on closed functional components arranged in a flat communication hierarchy. The components may be executed by different processing elements, and each component itself may run on multiple processing elements. The system is driven by the instructions of a central cell control component. We set up necessary requirements for industrial robot cells and possible parallelization levels. These are met by the suggested robot control architecture. As an example we present a robot work cell and a component for motion planning, which fits well in this concept.
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Henrich, D., Abegg, F., Wurll, C., Wörn, H. (1998). A parallel control architecture for industrial robot cells. In: Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72198-4_8
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