Industrial vs Service Robots

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Anonymous Poster	Industrial vs Service Robots 02/21/2011 1:29 AM
	In my research I read that we need different software platforms for industrial and service robots. Why can't we use a service robot software for industrial robot one? What will happen if we did? Thank you.
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RDGRNR Guru Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: San Antonio, TX USA Posts: 844 Good Answers: 29	#1 Re: Industrial vs Service Robots 02/21/2011 12:50 PM
	The same thing that will happen if you tear the tag off of your mattress, the robot police will come looking for you! __________________ "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater". - Albert Einstein
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rhkramer Guru Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1294 Good Answers: 35	#2 Re: Industrial vs Service Robots 02/21/2011 1:41 PM
	I suspect the writer(s) of that (those) article(s) have something to gain by proposing a different software platform. There may be real advantages of one software platform over the other for one purpose or the other, but it requires investigation to dig out the pros and cons of each platform, and decide whether they are real, and whether they are significant enough to affect the decision. You may even find that in an particular application, the software platform normally recommended for the other type of application is actually a better fit.
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rhkramer Guru Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1294 Good Answers: 35	#4 In reply to #2 Re: Industrial vs Service Robots 02/21/2011 2:17 PM
	Re: You may even find that in an particular application, the software platform normally recommended for the other type of application is actually a better fit. Just correcting myself--I meant to write "in any particular", but looking at it now, "in a particular" would work just as well or be better (saving two letters). A/an confusion is a pet peeve of mine.
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Yuval Guru Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Israel Posts: 2968 Good Answers: 24	#3 Re: Industrial vs Service Robots 02/21/2011 1:58 PM
	Industrial robots are usually interfaced using low-level languages (today's brats probably call these "development environments" - as if) such as Mnemonics, Assembly, and FORTH, because in these "Atomic" languages you need very compact codes for short-time machine-reaction, and step-by-step precise documentation for tight debugging and reliable, bug-free functionality, because idle-time in industrial terms is very expensive. High-level compilers such as CPP and it's derivatives (ROBOTC etc), or Lisp and VPL, are cumbersome in the sense that they create a lot of Junk-Code (non-active code segments) in their Runtimes, and therefore are prone to harbor a lot of potential bugs, some of which are impossible to debug being a result of Junk-Code Conflicts. Since high-level compilers amount to an easier environment for programming, they are mostly used for education, prototype development, or hobby and DIY projects, because there, idle-time resulting from bugs only add to the educational value of the debugging phase.
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