Hiding real-time: a new approach for the software development of industrial robots

  • Authors:

  • Alwin Hoffmann;Andreas Angerer;Frank Ortmeier;Michael Vistein;Wolfgang Reif

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Software and Systems Engineering, University of Augsburg, Germany;Institute of Software and Systems Engineering, University of Augsburg, Germany;Institute of Software and Systems Engineering, University of Augsburg, Germany;Institute of Software and Systems Engineering, University of Augsburg, Germany;Institute of Software and Systems Engineering, University of Augsburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The application of industrial robots is strongly limited by the use of old-style robot programming languages. Due to these languages, the development of robotic software is a complex and expensive task requiring technical expertise and time. Hence, the use of industrial robots is often not a question of technical feasibility but of economic efficiency. This paper introduces a new architectural approach making available modern concepts of software engineering for industrial robots. The core idea is to hide the real-time critical robot control from application developers. Instead, common functionality is provided by a generic and extensible application programming interface and can be easily used. Hence, this approach can lead to an industrialization of software development for industrial robotics.