Emerging Technologies for Health and Medicine

CHAPTER 11ADVANCED INTELLIGENT ROBOT CONTROL INTERFACES FOR THE VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION APPLIED TO THE INDUCTION HARDENING PROCESS

GAL IONEL-ALEXANDRU¹, VLADAREANU LUIGE^1,* AND SHUANG CANG²

¹ Institute of Solid Mechanics of Romanian Academy, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

² Northumbria University, Newcastle Business School, Faculty of Business and Law, UK

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Abstract.

The paper presents advanced intelligent control interfaces, for the virtual reality simulation of the robot mechanical structure Ro CIF VIP, using Unity3D, applied to the induction hardening process. A mechanical structure with 5 degrees of freedom, designed to be used for induction hardening process of building metallic profiles is proposed. All 5 joints of the proposed mechanical structure are prismatic, required to move a metallic profile through the inducer. The simulation was achieved using Unity3D software which provides the virtual environment needed for our purposes. To use the virtual simulation of the structure, we have had to build software components to help us gain access to the simulated components during the simulation. More components were added to implement the user interface and also the management backbone of the entire simulation. To analyze the experimental data, we have built our own system to save the joint values and the first 4 parameters of Interface class are values used for the advanced intelligent ...