Sterowanie wieloosiowym napędem pozycjonującym robota przemysłowego IRB-6

This paper describes effect of modernization of an old industrial IRb6-type robot control system. The old original programmer of the robot used analog techniques. It occupied a lot of space and was very energy-consuming. This equipment was completely replaced by the new digital controller, taking advance of the high technology. The new controller utilizes modern DC-DC converter composed of efficient MOSFET-type transistors and consist a fast, versatile AVR-family microprocessor. The renewed robot is controlled with the aid of personal computer with a supervisory software, that allow make a project of motion-sequence of the robot. Detailed hardware and software description in this paper is presented.