REMOTE CONTROL OF MECHANICAL HANDLING SYSTEMS AND MECHANICAL HANDLING SYSTEMS WITH SUCH REMOTE CONTROL

摘要

In the remote control of mechanical handling systems with claws that are movable, spatially by power-rotated articulations and laterally by straight-line drive mechanisms, from a starting position to a required arrival position by presetting the individual drive mechanisms, the required position of the claws being achieved by overriding the partial moves effected by the individual drive mechanisms, the movements of the claws and their position in an inertial coordinate system at any one time are recorded, by monitors fitted directly to the claws themselves, whereupon the data recorded are converted into desired values for the individual drive mechanisms and then conveyed to the mechanisms as settings for attainment of the required positions.