RIPE/RIPL. Robot Independent Programming Environment and Language

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:115670

Miller, D; Lennox, R C; Fahrenholtz, J; Shinn, R; Rhea, R; Rogers, M ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (United States)

RIPE is an object-oriented approach to robot system architectures; it is a software environment which facilitates rapid design and implementation of complex robot systems for diverse applications. The robot work cell is modeled using software objects and supports model-based automated programming of robotic and machining devices, real-time sensor-based control, error handling, robust communications and graphical interfaces for robot system control. The objects include robots, sensors, end effectors, workpieces, NC machines and various other devices. A set of generic classes is defined to represent these objects, and the interfaces to them become RIPL.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 115670
• Report Number(s): ESTSC-000831SPARC00
• Resource Relation: Other Information: DN: Requires the Monitor program for particular robot being used.; PBD: 1 Jan 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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