Siemens and Artiminds
Prototype interface for advanced robotics
The coupling between PLC and robot controller is crucial for the integration of advanced robotics applications in an automation environment. With ArTIA, Artiminds and Siemens have developed a software connector that links their engineering tools.
ArTIA is a prototype developed jointly by Artiminds Robotics and Siemens that connects the Artiminds Robot Programming Suite (RPS) and Simatic Step 7 (TIA Portal). The aim of the software connector is to minimize the effort involved in implementing advanced robotics applications by automatically creating a communication interface between the robot controller and the programmable logic controller.
ArTIA automatically sets up the corresponding robot hardware in the TIA Portal project and imports the function blocks according to the robot's subroutines generated in RPS. This ensures consistent data exchange between the PLC and the robot controller. Similar to the conventional procedure, the TIA Portal can then be used as usual to set up the robot's interaction with the system and finalize the integration.
In addition, ArTIA lays the foundation for self-learning of robots during operation. The connection between the robot controller, Simatic controller and the Artiminds Learning & Analytics for Robots (LAR) analysis software means that algorithms can be used in future for autonomous teach point optimization while complying with the underlying safety requirements.
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