Robotics

Develop specifications for the robotics communication. Robotics stands for a complete motion device system that includes a list of motion devices. Includes for example industry robots (stationary), mobile robots (also with several robot arms), robots with several control units, service robots and many more.
The OPC UA Robotics Companion Specification is split up into several parts from part 1 to part n. Part 1 includes a basic description of a motion device system and has the main scope to push out condition data of a motion device system vertically into higher level manufacturing systems (e. g. line PLC, MES; Cloud) for information and diagnostic purposes. Subsequent parts will extend the basic robotics description and cover other use cases, e. g. to configure and control a motion device system or the included motion devices.

More Information

• VDMA Robotic specific
  2 min video “VDMA Robotics – Overview” by Dr. Reinhard Heister
  8 min video “VDMA Robotics – Overview in details” by Dr. Reinhard Heister