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From: allend@pt.cyanamid.com (david allen)
Subject: Re: HELP. Multiple Robots Programming
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jose luis gonzalez sanchez wrote:

>   Multi-robots is a set of multiple (ie. 3) robots working concurrently
>   in a robots work cell.
>   
>   I'm looking for the state-of-the art on intelligent multi-robots systems.


Check out the commercial system from Megamation in NJ or Yaskawa.
they both have multi-head, cooperative systems with avoidance and
anti-collision programming.  Any arm can take on any task as needed,
giving very high utilization and throughput.

da

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