A Robot Controller Development of a Large-scale System for Shipbuilding

  • Kim, Soo-Ho (Robot R&D Institute, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Kang, Gye-Hyung (Robot R&D Institute, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Park, Ju-Yi (Robot R&D Institute, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Chu, Gil-Whoan (Robot R&D Institute, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Wook (Robot R&D Institute, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Kim, Ji-Yun (Robot R&D Institute, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Kim, Sung-Kwun (Department of Mechatronics, Korea Polytechnic University)
  • Published : 2005.06.02

Abstract

This paper present a robot controller developed for shipbuilding yard. Since shipbuilding process handles large work pieces and has dusty and noisy environment, the developed controller has separated architecture into main control part and servo control part. Main control part is located in control room while servo control part is located near robot with work pieces. Commutation between two parts is done through SynqNet and RS485. Air purging system is adapted to servo control part for better reliability. We aimed open architecture in both hardware and software architecture. For open hardware architecture, we employed Compact PCI (cPCI) because it is widely used bus system and very reliable. Since lots of commercial boards are available with cPCI interface, upgrade and reconfiguration is easy. For open software architecture, Windows XP�� Embedded is selected as operating system (OS), because it is very popular OS and most hardware vender supports device driver for the windows XP.

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