Development ofControl System for Virtual Manufacturing System
Abstract
Recently, Virtual Manufacturing (VM) has received great attention from several
researchers because of its ability to save the time and cost. In VM, analysis of
manufacturing activities are carried out virtually using computer technology so that it
can be finished fast. Technically, all of objects in real manufacturing system are
modelled virtually in 3D space. Besides, it is need to provide a control system as well
in order to move and monitor the virtual objects in 3d environment. The aim of this
research is to develop a control system for a VM system. The control system is
developed based on inverse kinematic concept and it is instantiated using Microsoft
Visual C# technology. A commercial 3D engine, TV3D system is also utilised in order
to render the modelled 3D objects. Based on testing using a case study which involves
2 industrial robot arms with 6 degree of freedom, it shows that the developed control
system is able to move and monitor the industrial robot arms without any collisions. It
can be said fairly that the proposed control system is work well in such case study.
Keywords: Virtual Manufacture, Control Algorithm, Inverse Kinematic, TV3D
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