Behavioral Robot Simulation for Production Systems

Abstract

The intelligent production systems have become more and more important for modem enterprises in the industry. Usually the design process of a new product has great many stages: each of them can introduce errors that are seriously retarding the heavy schedule. During the development of a new product a prototype is created usually in early design phase. This prototype can be used for verification purposes to hinder the unwanted events owing to design mistakes appearing in the final (commercial) product. Sometimes the manufacturing of the prototype can be a risky, expensive and time-consuming process - especially if the result does not meet our strict demands (thus we have to create a new prototype again). It is a modem approach to use virtual prototyping (by incorporating virtual reality) to cut down costs and increase productivity. This paper deals with this complex simulation and modeling problem through presenting our current simulator project at the department. Using our new kind of simulation architecture we can introduce physical hardwares to these tests to give better compliance with the behavior of the final product. The objectives and the future steps in the development of the software will also be discussed in this paper.