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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 1986
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1983
Burleigh M Hutchins, Hopkinton, MA (US);
William J Buote, Natick, MA (US);
Lawrence J Finn, Westborough, MA (US);
Zymark Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A self-configuring robotic system and method are disclosed. The system employs a computer having a central processing unit and an operating system containing at least a nucleus, a sequence reprogrammer and task support services. A robotic device and at least one defined task performing device, which may be another robotic device, are used in the system. Each device has a corresponding module that is electrically connected to the device and provides all of the intelligence for the particular device. Each module also provides a control block flag and a starting offset for the computer. The modules are electrically connected to the computer through a plurality of physically separable electrical connections so that all of the intelligence for the devices is on the device side of the associated physically separable electrical connections.