A distributed robot sensor system for force monitoring and control

This paper presents a distributed robot sensor (DRS) system for force monitoring and control. The DRS system is an application of networked sensors that offers a reusable and portable design framework for Internet-based distributed measurement and control (DMC). It covers some important areas which play critical roles in future DMC development, including standardized transducer interface, open network communications, and Internet-based DMC application development. The portability and reusability is assured by the employment of IEEE 1451 smart transducer interface standards and object-oriented Java 2 platform. Experiment results have proved that the framework works well and is fully Web-enabled.