Industrial robot motion control with real-time Java and EtherCAT
Author
Summary, in English
We have implemented a motion control system, and an application, for an ABB IRB 340 industrial robot entirely in real-time Java, using standard computer hardware, off-the-shelf EtherCAT servo drives, and the Sun Java Real-Time System 2.0 on Solaris 10. This shows the feasibility of real-time Java for practical robot applications. It also shows one advantage of the EtherCAT field bus technology, that no special master hardware is required. To our knowledge, this is the first robot control system implemented entirely in Java and executed on a certified virtual machine.
Publishing year
2007
Language
English
Pages
1453-1456
Publication/Series
Proceedings of the12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Topic
- Computer Science
Conference name
12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
Conference date
2007-09-25 - 2007-09-28
Conference place
Patras, Greece
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 1-4244-0826-1