A Practical Method to Adopt MAP In Industrial Robot Controller

The ultimate goal of an industrial robot is to make full use of its real ability to communicate with any given intelligent device, and to do so independently of hardware, architecture and languages. This paper describes the necessary functions of a robot used in an integrated manufacturing system, and the basic philosophy of organization as applied to the robot controller. An example of a machine vision system called MYVIS is reviewed in relation to MAP and LAN in a practical cell application.