TOWARDS A STANDARDIZED AND EXTENSIBLE MECHANISM FOR ROBOT DEVICE INTEGRATION A XIRP-based Approach and Test Bed Implementation

摘要

In industrial robot automation, the integration of intelligent peripheral devices becomes more and more important. But there is no standardized mechanism to setup the communication interface between them and to configure the usage of the device information for the robot applications. This makes the integration task often very tedious and time consuming. XIRP-the XML-based Interface for Robots and Peripherals is a recommendation that was published by the German standardization institute DIN in 2006. It specifies a standardized mechanism and the corresponding communication protocol for robot device integration. Our experiences with XIRP-based implementations have shown its big potential to support robotics PnP on the communication and configuration level. As one of the topics within the SME robot project, we are working on further developments or the concept. This paper introduces our approach for a revised XIRP concept, and discusses our experiences made on test-bed implementations.