公开(公告)号：US11782427B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-10

申请号：US18049051

申请日：2022-10-24

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ian Mcgregor ,  Adam Davidson ,  David Dawkins

IPC: G06F3/04815 ,  G06F3/0483 ,  G06T13/20 ,  G06V20/20 ,  G05B19/418 ,  G06T19/00

CPC classification number: G05B19/41885 ,  G06F3/0483 ,  G06F3/04815 ,  G06T13/20 ,  G06T19/006 ,  G06V20/20 ,  G05B2219/32014 ,  G05B2219/36133

Abstract: An industrial virtual reality (VR) system includes visualization processing capabilities that allow an augmented reality (AR) human-machine interface (HMI) application to be tested within a virtual representation of the plant environment. This approach can yield an interactable AR HMI that simulates, within the VR environment, what a wearer of an AR appliance will see while traversing the physical plant. In this way, proper operation of the AR HMI can be verified prior to commissioning of the physical system. This can include ensuring that graphics are tied to the correct data points, confirming correct and non-obtrusive locations of graphics within the user's field of view.

公开(公告)号：US20210138651A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-13

申请号：US16679522

申请日：2019-11-11

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ian Mcgregor ,  Adam Davidson ,  David Dawkins

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G06F17/50

Abstract: An industrial control design and testing system allows vendor-specific digital twins of industrial robots to be imported into a vendor-agnostic simulation platform so that coordinated operation of the robots within the context of a larger automation system can be simulated and observed. Rather than requiring a designer to re-write the robot program in a format understandable by the simulation system, the design and testing system can link to instances of the vendor-specific robot simulation platforms to facilitate execution of the actual robot programs that will be installed and executed on the corresponding physical robots. This accurately simulates operation of the robots in a manner that requires less development work on the part of the designer and allows the robot's surrounding environment to be modeled and simulated more accurately than would be the case using a simulation platform specific to a particular robot vendor.

公开(公告)号：US11526159B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-13

申请号：US16791107

申请日：2020-02-14

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ian Mcgregor ,  Adam Davidson ,  David Dawkins

IPC: G06F3/04815 ,  G06F3/0483 ,  G06T13/20 ,  G06V20/20 ,  G05B19/418 ,  G06T19/00

Abstract: An industrial virtual reality (VR) system includes visualization processing capabilities that allow an augmented reality (AR) human-machine interface (HMI) application to be tested within a virtual representation of the plant environment. This approach can yield an interactable AR HMI that simulates, within the VR environment, what a wearer of an AR appliance will see while traversing the physical plant. In this way, proper operation of the AR HMI can be verified prior to commissioning of the physical system. This can include ensuring that graphics are tied to the correct data points, confirming correct and non-obtrusive locations of graphics within the user's field of view.

公开(公告)号：US11318616B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-03

申请号：US16679522

申请日：2019-11-11

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ian Mcgregor ,  Adam Davidson ,  David Dawkins

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G06F30/20 ,  G06F111/20

Abstract: An industrial control design and testing system allows vendor-specific digital twins of industrial robots to be imported into a vendor-agnostic simulation platform so that coordinated operation of the robots within the context of a larger automation system can be simulated and observed. Rather than requiring a designer to re-write the robot program in a format understandable by the simulation system, the design and testing system can link to instances of the vendor-specific robot simulation platforms to facilitate execution of the actual robot programs that will be installed and executed on the corresponding physical robots. This accurately simulates operation of the robots in a manner that requires less development work on the part of the designer and allows the robot's surrounding environment to be modeled and simulated more accurately than would be the case using a simulation platform specific to a particular robot vendor.

公开(公告)号：US20220083027A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17022673

申请日：2020-09-16

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Bernard Brooks ,  Ian Mcgregor ,  Adam Davidson ,  David Dawkins

IPC: G05B19/4155

Abstract: An industrial simulation system simulates an industrial automation system using a virtual model or digital twin of the automation system and emulated execution of an industrial control program. The simulation system also emulates the control network over which the industrial controller will communicate with field devices of the automation system. In order to emulate the control network without the need for a separate piece of hardware external to the hardware on which the main simulation executes, the simulation system instantiates a network emulator as a device driver or virtual machine in the kernel space of the hardware platform on which the simulation executes. The network emulator monitors data traffic between user space and kernel space, processes a subset of the data traffic relating to the simulation, and returns results of the processing to the main simulation in user space. This architecture accurately emulates the control network with low latency.

公开(公告)号：US11638994B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-02

申请号：US17726716

申请日：2022-04-22

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ian Mcgregor ,  Adam Davidson ,  David Dawkins

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G06F30/20 ,  G06F111/20

Abstract: An industrial control design and testing system allows vendor-specific digital twins of industrial robots to be imported into a vendor-agnostic simulation platform so that coordinated operation of the robots within the context of a larger automation system can be simulated and observed. Rather than requiring a designer to re-write the robot program in a format understandable by the simulation system, the design and testing system can link to instances of the vendor-specific robot simulation platforms to facilitate execution of the actual robot programs that will be installed and executed on the corresponding physical robots. This accurately simulates operation of the robots in a manner that requires less development work on the part of the designer and allows the robot's surrounding environment to be modeled and simulated more accurately than would be the case using a simulation platform specific to a particular robot vendor.

公开(公告)号：US20230064632A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-02

申请号：US18049051

申请日：2022-10-24

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ian Mcgregor ,  Adam Davidson ,  David Dawkins

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G06F3/04815 ,  G06F3/0483 ,  G06T13/20 ,  G06T19/00 ,  G06V20/20

Abstract: An industrial virtual reality (VR) system includes visualization processing capabilities that allow an augmented reality (AR) human-machine interface (HMI) application to be tested within a virtual representation of the plant environment. This approach can yield an interactable AR HMI that simulates, within the VR environment, what a wearer of an AR appliance will see while traversing the physical plant. In this way, proper operation of the AR HMI can be verified prior to commissioning of the physical system. This can include ensuring that graphics are tied to the correct data points, confirming correct and non-obtrusive locations of graphics within the user's field of view.

公开(公告)号：US20220241972A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-04

申请号：US17726716

申请日：2022-04-22

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ian Mcgregor ,  Adam Davidson ,  David Dawkins

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G06F30/20

Abstract: An industrial control design and testing system allows vendor-specific digital twins of industrial robots to be imported into a vendor-agnostic simulation platform so that coordinated operation of the robots within the context of a larger automation system can be simulated and observed. Rather than requiring a designer to re-write the robot program in a format understandable by the simulation system, the design and testing system can link to instances of the vendor-specific robot simulation platforms to facilitate execution of the actual robot programs that will be installed and executed on the corresponding physical robots. This accurately simulates operation of the robots in a manner that requires less development work on the part of the designer and allows the robot's surrounding environment to be modeled and simulated more accurately than would be the case using a simulation platform specific to a particular robot vendor.