Software for the Control and Monitoring of Work of a Collaborative Robot

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Keywords: robotics, collaborative robot, python, joystick, cobot, kawasaki, duaro

Abstract

The development of robotic systems is correlated with the development of their software. Expanding robot implementation areas and attempts to replace more and more groups of activities carried out by people requires increasing the degrees of freedom, introducing robot interaction with the environment, and preparing software that manages over six degrees of freedom in a friendly, understandable, ergonomic, and functional manner. The authors proposed a method of programming a collaborative robot with the use of a joystick, created the necessary software, constructed elements of the system, obtaining an original, flexible, and intuitive solution. As part of the work, the proposed solution has been simulated and verified. Verification of the proposed solution was carried out on a real bench equipped with a cobot, Kawasaki duAro.

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Łabuński, W., & Burghardt, A. (2022). Software for the Control and Monitoring of Work of a Collaborative Robot. Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems, 15(3), 29-36. https://doi.org/10.14313/JAMRIS/3-2021/16