DEMO TR0 Robotic Manipulator

Concepts

• industrial robots
• abingdon
• atomic energy authority
• uk atomic energy authority macro
• robotic manipulator
• advanced control for remote operations
• model-based advanced control
• remote operations
• demo tr
• controller

Location

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire: Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB

Description

The UK Atomic Energy Authority MACRO (Model-based Advanced Control for Remote Operations) team have a requirement for a robotic manipulator, controller and associated software and hardware for the RMTF TR0 Modular Integration Work Cell test rig. Please note this is an award notice not a call for competition.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 42997300 - Industrial robots

Legal Justification

UK AEA requires this manipulator and controller to have a robotic control system which would allow a user-defined servo control, in which current demands to the motor drivers of the robot are calculated by bespoke control algorithms. In this way any proprietary control law implemented by the manufacturer should be overridable by the user-defined one. The controller should also implement a ROS 2 interface to allow real-time exchange of data with third party devices/software through the Data Distribution Service (DDS) protocol.” UK AEA has identified the Comau G5G controller as the only “open” controller on the market in the sense described above. Furthermore, the C5G controller is now ROS-2 compatible, which makes it the best system architecture for DEMO RMTF in the current landscape of industrial controller technology..

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