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