4TH EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET AWARD 2016/2017
The GPDS research group is developing a parallel robot guided by two cameras, one conventional frame camera used in industrial systems from Teledyne Dalsa and another one using frameless SCD AER technology.
All nodes and controller are powered with B&R technology, leader in devices for motion control in the industrial field. One of the main goals of the project is to incorporate the advantage of the AER technology in industrial enviroments using POWERLINK as the way to do it. 
With this project it has been probed that not only it is possible to easily integrate new devices in a industrial network with new technologies through Powerlink, but that it is possible to integrate those devices in high demand communication tasks.
Introduction and motivation of the project:
Hardware boards for AER camera coded and developed in the project:
This video is shown the performance of the filter LDSI (also developed in our group) for tracking the ball and removing noise. This filter is quite novel because it has been made to be used by frameless camera.
On the other hand, a typical industrial vision system was also used. The next video shows the tracking code with Sherlock vision system.
This video shows how the links of the robot were made.
Tracking from low to high robot speed.
In this video is shown how the robot tracks the ball at high speed.
In this video the robot is operated by a joystick, which is a node in an ethernet-powerlink network.
Hardware
As it is shown in the videos, Powerlink is a powerful communication protocol capable of integrating novel technologies as the frameless SCD/AER cameras in a high demand bandwith network as it is required in motion control task.
In the next link is available the abstract of the project: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07188
Juan Barrios Avilés
Taras Iakymchuk
Jorge Samaniego
Alfredo Rosado Muñoz