ZROBOT: a new CAD/CAM environment to program robot control by animated graphics

  • Authors:
  • H. G. Mendelbaum;B. Z. Fridman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGSMALL/PC symposium on Small systems
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

The control of a robot consists in:computing the space environment of the mechanical armordering the robot movementscollecting informations on the status of the physical arm (feedback) in order to make computations again and correct the movements./listThe engineer who has to build a control application for a robot is confronted to various main problems:the problem of understanding and building the various elementary actions of the robot, depending on the physical features of the electro-mechanical arm (mechanical characteristics, motors, sensors, signals etc…)the problem of specifying the logical control of the robot : i.e. building a working model of the desired movements using computations corresponding to the robots' physical featuresthe problem of translating the movements model into a real-time language (syntax problem and adaptation problem of the model to the language structure)the problem of using the real-time primitives of an operating system so that to synchronize the robots' various actions in order to build complex movements.