Converting Robot Offline Programs to Native Code Using the AdaptPack Studio Translators

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2019

Authors

Souza, JP (Author) FEUP; Castro, A (Author) Other; Rocha, LF (Author) FEUP; Relvas, P (Author) Other; Silva, MF (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2019 19TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS AND COMPETITIONS (ICARSC 2019)

Pages: 206-212

19th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC)

Gondomar, PORTUGAL, APR 24-26, 2019

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Authenticus ID: P-00Q-SH6

DOI: 10.1109/icarsc.2019.8733631

Abstract (EN): The increase in productivity is a demand for modern industries that need to be competitive in the actual business scenario. To face these challenges, companies are increasingly using robotic systems for end-of-line production tasks, such as wrapping and palletizing, as a mean to enhance the production line efficiency and products traceability, allowing human operators to be moved to more added value operations. Despite this increasing use of robotic systems, these equipments still present some inconveniences regarding the programming procedure, as the time required for its execution does not meet the current industrial needs. To face this drawback, offline robot programming methods are gaining great visibility, as their flexibility and programming speed allows companies to face the need of successive changes in the production line set-up. However, even with a great number of robots and simulators that are available in market, the efforts to support several robot brands in one software did not reach the needs of engineers. Therefore, this paper proposes a translation library named AdaptPack Studio Translator, which is capable to export proprietary codes for the ABB, Fanuc, Kuka, and Yaskawa robot brands, after their offline programming has been performed in the Visual Components software. The results presented in this paper are evaluated in simulated and real scenarios.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 7