Development of a Teach Pendant for an ABB Robot

Abstract

This work is developed as part of an strategy to open the architecture of an industrial robot type ABB with the one that counts the Group of Robotics of the Faculty of Electronic Sciences. The principal goal is design and builds a Teach Pendant using electronic current devices being capable of communicating via USB towards a computer that does the functions of principal processor and control loop. This Teach Pendant has the basic elements of any commercial console present today, with ones the user will be capable of programming or editing routines as well as of manipulating the robot of manual form and to see it to work in real time, also it bear in mind the ergonomics of the device which must fulfill certain requirements to qualify as an easily operable device but that in turn is functional. The system uses a micro-controller PIC as unit of principal processing, which is in charge to process and display the information the user types by means the keypad and liquid crystal display (LCD) in order to sending the data towards the computer via US. It is necessary indicate that this type of work has not developed previously, and though several commercial versions exist this one is the first one to level of development and investigation done by a Mexican university.