Research overview

Applications and demonstration

Research Areas:

Automation Systems: Languages and Automation

Configuration Management

Feedback and Quality-of-Service

Natural Language Technologies

Object-Oriented Compiler Technology

Requirements Engineering

Research Methodology

Software Architectures

Software Quality Management

System and Software Architectures in Robotics

Verification and Validation

Education:

Undergraduate Education Development

Master Thesis Projects

Industry Courses

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System and Software Architectures in Robotics

Domain specific architectures provide enhanced support for specific application areas, compared to software architectures in general as in the previous item. The LUCAS partners have been active for several years within control system architectures for industrial robots. This is related to the ”Languages and Automation” item above since robots are used as components in factory automation systems, but the focus here is on the programming and control issues for the robot as such.

Robots differ from other types of automation in due to flexibility, user programming (geometries, object manipulation), system programming (optimized real-time motion control), etc., motivating a domain-specific approach. On the other hand, it is of course important to support integration of robots with their surrounding systems, which is an ongoing topic within LUCAS. This is related to the work on domain specific languages and our approach to real-time Java.

In this perspective, the robotics laboratory, located at the Department of Automatic Control, serves as a common demonstrator platform for several of the LUCAS projects. The lab has three industrial robots provided by ABB Robotics. Two of these are reconfigured for experiments in both control and programming, whereas the third robot includes the complete ABB software that has been extended for external sensor based control and are located at ABB in Västerås.

See also Productive Robotics @ LTH.

People
tekn. Anders Blomdell, Prof. Rolf Johansson, Dr. Klas Nilsson, Lic. Eng Tomas Olsson, Dr. Anders Robertsson

Contact: Dr. Klas Nilsson

Funded projects 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Funder
Mobile Autonomous Systems x                   NUTEK
Complex Technological Systems x x x               VINNOVA
FlexAA           x         EU
SIARAS             x x x   EU

Demos and applications
Inverted Pendulum
LJRT - Lund Java-based Real Time
Virtual visual servoing

Related undergraduate courses
Computer Mechatronics

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