Neutral interfaces in design, simulation, and programming for robotics. (English) Zbl 0809.68035
Research Reports ESPRIT. Subseries PDT (Product Data Technology). Project 5109: Neutral interfaces for robotics (NIRO). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. xv, 334 p. DM 70.00; öS 546.00; sFr 70.00 /sc (1994).
The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.
Product Data Technology encompasses the information related to all stages in the product life cycle from product design via production planning, production processes, production control, etc. through the delivery and operational stages of the technical product. Product Data Technology takes a coherent, unified view of the information captured in this whole life cycle and provides methodologies to support this integrated perspective. The Product Data Technology Advisory Group (PDTAG), is a Special Interest Group supported by the CIME Division within DG III of the European Commission. Founded in 1991, the PDTAG has encouraged the formation of a new subseries on Product Data Technology within the existing series of Research Reports ESPRIT. This subseries will provide a depository for the important contributions made by ESPRIT projects to the evolving area of Product Data Technology, particularly also those based on the STEP (ISO 10303). PDTAG is grateful to Springer Publishers for establishing this subseries which will serve to report recent international developments in Product Data Technology.
The current volume describes the results of the NIRO Project (ESPRIT 2614/5109), dealing with neutral interfaces for robotics. This project has made important contributions to international standardization for the software interfaces linking systems for computer-aided design, for industrial robot programming and robot simulation. These systems cover a key part of the CIM process chain. NIRO has had important influence on international standards for kinematics (Part 105 of STEP) and on the robot programming languages IRL and ICR: This volume presents NIRO’s contributions to these standards and its own results in developing STEP processors as well as four demonstration pilots of neutrally interfaced systems for CAD supported offline robot programming and robot simulation. These results are very suitable to demonstrate the current potential and future promise of Product Data Technology.
Product Data Technology encompasses the information related to all stages in the product life cycle from product design via production planning, production processes, production control, etc. through the delivery and operational stages of the technical product. Product Data Technology takes a coherent, unified view of the information captured in this whole life cycle and provides methodologies to support this integrated perspective. The Product Data Technology Advisory Group (PDTAG), is a Special Interest Group supported by the CIME Division within DG III of the European Commission. Founded in 1991, the PDTAG has encouraged the formation of a new subseries on Product Data Technology within the existing series of Research Reports ESPRIT. This subseries will provide a depository for the important contributions made by ESPRIT projects to the evolving area of Product Data Technology, particularly also those based on the STEP (ISO 10303). PDTAG is grateful to Springer Publishers for establishing this subseries which will serve to report recent international developments in Product Data Technology.
The current volume describes the results of the NIRO Project (ESPRIT 2614/5109), dealing with neutral interfaces for robotics. This project has made important contributions to international standardization for the software interfaces linking systems for computer-aided design, for industrial robot programming and robot simulation. These systems cover a key part of the CIM process chain. NIRO has had important influence on international standards for kinematics (Part 105 of STEP) and on the robot programming languages IRL and ICR: This volume presents NIRO’s contributions to these standards and its own results in developing STEP processors as well as four demonstration pilots of neutrally interfaced systems for CAD supported offline robot programming and robot simulation. These results are very suitable to demonstrate the current potential and future promise of Product Data Technology.
MSC:
| 68-02 | Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to computer science |
| 68T35 | Theory of languages and software systems (knowledge-based systems, expert systems, etc.) for artificial intelligence |
| 68U20 | Simulation (MSC2010) |
| 68U07 | Computer science aspects of computer-aided design |
