FA system integration using robotic intelligent componets

This paper describes FA system integration procedure using Robotic Intelligent Components and the customized Open Software Platform for Robotic Services (OProS) component development tool which are the 4th year research results of our project, "The development of Robotic Intelligent S/W Component and its performance test". In our previous paper, we suggested a unified system integration method to build an intelligent robotic system using robotic intelligent components(RIC) and introduced the concept of a robotic intelligent component which consists of an embedded hardware module adopting EtherCAT bus and a software module based on Open Software Platform for Robotic Services (OPRoS) in the first paper and then we described the easy system integration procedure to develop a mobile manipulator using RIC in the second paper. In this paper, we address the FA system integration procedure using FA H/W module and S/W modules developed toward the commercialization and popularization of RIC. We expect that RIC is applicable to the industrial filed as well as the intelligent robotic field.