Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Kuka Controls | Subject: Real-time extension software
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 6 October 2005
Real-time extensions help
control robotic system
Kuka Controls successfully completed a technical demonstration of a robotic system at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, California, USA
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Kuka Controls, a developer of real-time operating system solutions for Windows XP, has announced that it has successfully completed a technical demonstration of a robotic system at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, California, USA. Kuka Controls was one of the few companies invited to exhibit real world applications of Windows software solutions.
The five-day conference updates developers on the Windows platform in multiple half-day learning tracks.
Bill Gates gave the opening address.
The conference drew over 6000 attendees from all over the world and featured over 100 corporate exhibits showing Windows-related products.
In the demonstration, a Kuka robotic system machined a futuristic automobile body from a 45kg block of high-density polyurethane foam.
The robotic control system featured Kuka Controls' real-time extension that combined the Windows XP operating system and a high performance real-time operating system on a single industrial PC.
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The robot drew a large audience as the one of the few operational machines at the show.
It was located in a protected area for safety.
Information on medical and test and measurement applications was also distributed.
'Developers attending the conference write code all day at their terminals and rarely have the opportunity to see large industrial robots actually producing physical products', noted Gerd Lammers, Director Sales and Marketing Kuka Controls.
'The Kuka Controls software enables equipment manufactures to incorporate the familiar, high-end graphical user interface by adding the Windows platform to the existing real-time operating system already on the machine'.
Kuka Controls' real-time software extensions are distributed worldwide and are deployed in aerospace, automation, defense, medical and test and measurement applications.
The company is a Microsoft Gold Level Windows Embedded Partner (WEP) and a Wind River Platform Partner.
These long-term relationships provide smooth integration of the latest OS updates and assure customers of the necessary long-term platform stability.
Kuka Controls also certifies third-party hardware compatibility to simplify development of new real-time applications.
The new software extension versions, CeWin V3.3 and VxWin V3.1, now feature support for both APIC and multiprocessor systems including support for the ACPI uniprocessor and ACPI multiprocessor HALs used with most modern PC hardware.
The ACPI support adds hibernate and power management functionality to the system.
The extensions can now be started by a service, allowing the application to begin real-time processing without user logon.
VxWin and CeWin real-time extension technology enable the coexistence of two operating systems on a single computer, in part, by dividing the PC memory so that the RTOS (either VxWorks or Windows CE) and Windows XP each execute in separate, protected memory areas.
No modifications are made to either operating system allowing developers to take advantage of previous experience and existing code while maintaining maximum flexibility.
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