Citation
Rigelsford, J. (2003), "System for synchronous robot control", Industrial Robot, Vol. 30 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2003.04930cad.011
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
System for synchronous robot control
System for synchronous robot control
Applicant: Fanuc Ltd, JapanPatent number: US6,330,493Publication date: 11 December 2001Title: Control system for synchronously cooperative operation of plurality of robots
This patent describes a control system for performing synchronous cooperative operation among a plurality of robots connected by a communication line.
At least one master robot controller is selected for controlling at least one master robot from the plurality of robot controllers, and one or more slave robot controllers are selected for one or more slave robots from the remaining controllers. The master robot controller sends data regarding positions of taught points and interpolation points for the master robot to each of the slave robot controllers via the communication line. Each slave robot performs the synchronously cooperative operation with the master robot based on the data received from the master robot controller.