APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING AND MONITORING ROBOT APPLICATION AND ROBOT DRIVEN THEREBY

• US 20110153079A1
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Song, Byoung-Youl, Jang, Choul-Soo, JUNG, Seung-Woog
• Application Number:
  US12/971,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20110153079A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/248
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/41865 characterised by job scheduling, process planning, material flow
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/39146 Swarm, multiagent, distributed multitask fusion, cooperation multi robots
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

Provided is a technology that effectively distributes and monitors the execution of robot application to allow a plurality of robots to perform tasks in cooperation with each other. An apparatus for distributing and monitoring robot application according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a robot information manager managing information of a plurality of robots constituted by a plurality of nodes classified by a driving function; a robot application generator generating the robot application combining a plurality of components for driving the plurality of robots; and a robot application controller distributing the robot application to the plurality of robots on the basis of the information of the plurality of robots and receiving execution monitoring information of the robot application.

Claims

1. An apparatus for distributing and monitoring robot application, comprising:

a robot information manager managing information of a plurality of robots constituted by a plurality of nodes classified by a driving function;

a robot application generator generating the robot application by combining a plurality of components for driving the plurality of robots; and

a robot application controller distributing the robot application to the plurality of robots on the basis of the information of the plurality of robots and receiving execution monitoring information of the robot application.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the robot application controller further has a function of generating a command to execute each of the plurality of components in accordance with a predetermined execution sequence.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the robot application controller further has a function of generating a command to stop the execution of the robot application when it is determined that any one of the plurality of components violates the predetermined execution sequence.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information of the plurality of robots includes one or more of identification information of the robots, functional information of the robots, functional information of the plurality of nodes, and IP address information and IP port numbers information of the plurality of nodes.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the robot application generator further has a function of retrieving and receiving the plurality of components from an external server.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the robot application controller distributes the plurality of components which are included in the robot application and corresponding to each of the plurality of nodes included in the plurality of robots, on the basis of the information of the plurality of robots.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the robot application controller further has a function of generating the command to stop the execution of the robot application when an error occurs in the execution of any one of the plurality of components included in the robot application on the basis of the execution monitoring information.

8. A robot driven by robot application, comprising:

a command receiver receiving one or more of a plurality of components included in the robot application and an execution control command from a robot application management device;

a component allocator allocating one or more of the plurality of components and the execution control command to a plurality of execution nodes based on information of the robot; and

an execution monitoring unit monitoring whether or not the components corresponding to the plurality of execution nodes are normally executed.

9. The robot of claim 8, wherein the execution control command includes one or more of information whether or not to stop the execution of the robot application and information of execution sequence of the plurality of components.

10. The robot of claim 8, wherein the plurality of execution nodes correspond to each of a plurality of driving functions included in the robot.

11. The robot of claim 8, wherein the information of the robot includes one or more of identification information of the robot, functional information of the robot, functional information of the plurality of nodes, and IP address information and IP port numbers information of the plurality of nodes.

12. A method for distributing and monitoring robot application, comprising:

managing information of a plurality of robots constituted by a plurality of nodes classified by a driving function by a robot information manager;

generating the robot application by combining a plurality of components for driving the plurality of robots by a robot application generator;

distributing the robot application to the plurality of robots on the basis of the information of the plurality of robots by a robot application controller; and

receiving execution monitoring information of the robot application by the robot application controller.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising retrieving and receiving the plurality of components from an external server by the robot application controller.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the information of the plurality of robots includes one or more of identification information of the robots, functional information of the robots, functional information of the plurality of nodes, and IP address information and IP port numbers information of the plurality of nodes.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the distributing distributes the plurality of components which are included in the robot application and corresponding to each of the plurality of nodes included in the plurality of robots, on the basis of the information of the plurality of robots.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising generating a command to execute the plurality of components in accordance with a predetermined execution sequence by the robot application controller.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising allowing receiving one or more of a plurality of components included in the robot application and an execution control command of the robot application by a command receiver of the robot.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising allocating one or more of the plurality of components and the execution control command to a plurality of execution nodes based on information of the robot by a component allocator of the robot.

19. The method of claim 12, further monitoring whether or not the components corresponding to the plurality of execution nodes are normally executed by an execution monitoring unit of the robot.

20. The method of claim 12, further comprising generating the command to stop the execution of the robot application when an error occurs in the execution of any one of the plurality of components or one or more of the execution sequences based on the execution monitoring information by the robot application controller.