An advanced robot control system for manufacturing processes

Presented in this paper is an advanced robot control system which is used as a research and test environment. Its hierarchical and highly modularized structure, based on a new standard reference model proposed for telerobot control system architectures, allows customized development and implementation of different complex advanced control concepts and algorithms, including fusion of multisensor data. An overall system-oriented approach for sensor-driven manufacturing processes with industrial robots was developed and tested. A contact task was used to demonstrate the system performance.