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On the Impact of Wireless Communications on Controlling a Two-Dimensional Gantry System

Published

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, sebti foufou

Abstract

Industrial wireless is essential to achieve the vision of future manufacturing systems which are highly dynamic and reconfigurable, and communicate large amounts of data. Main challenges of wireless deployment include the stochastic nature of the wireless channels and the harsh industrial transmission environment. In this work, a typical two-dimensional gantry system is controlled by a local controller which receives G-code commands wirelessly over a Wi-Fi network. The industrial wireless channel is replicated using a radio frequency (RF) channel emulator where various scenarios are considered and various wireless channel parameters are studied. The movement of the gantry system tool is tracked using a vision tracking system to quantify the impact of the wireless channel on the system performance. Numerical results are presented including the total run time of an industrial process and the dwell times at various positions through the process.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the 2019 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference
Conference Dates
June 10-14, 2019
Conference Location
Erie, PA, US
Conference Title
2019 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference

Keywords

manufacturing, wireless, gantry

Citation

Hany, M. , Candell, R. and Foufou, S. (2019), On the Impact of Wireless Communications on Controlling a Two-Dimensional Gantry System, Proceedings of the 2019 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, Erie, PA, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=927168 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created June 9, 2019, Updated October 12, 2021