Cybernetix’s CyxPro® Software for monitoring remotely operated systems integrates Kineo CAM’s KCD™ collision-detection library

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(2008), "Cybernetix’s CyxPro® Software for monitoring remotely operated systems integrates Kineo CAM’s KCD™ collision-detection library", Industrial Robot, Vol. 35 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2008.04935ead.001

Cybernetix’s CyxPro® Software for monitoring remotely operated systems integrates Kineo CAM’s KCD™ collision-detection library

Cybernetix’s CyxPro^® Software for monitoring remotely operated systems integrates Kineo CAM’s KCD™ collision-detection library

Article Type: New products From: Industrial Robot: An International Journal, Volume 35, Issue 5

Cybernetix and Kineo CAM announce the integration of KCD™ with the V2.0 release of CyxPro^®.

CyxPro^® V2.0 is the new software platform for graphical monitoring of remotely operated systems from Cybernetix. CyxPro^® aims to ensure the supervision of complete remotely-operated units such as robots, manipulator arms, cranes, vehicles, automates, tools… in a generic manner and through a single interface.

Owing to its advanced functionalities, in particular the 3D graphical interface, the creation of intervention scenarios, the anti-collision and the training in virtual scenes, CyxPro^® is a standard platform for the monitoring of remotely operated cells.

CyxPro^® V2.0 was created to address a wide range of user cases for complex remote handling operations whose scenes of intervention can be forecasted and modeled; Nuclear Industries, Oil, Aeronautical, Fret… are primarily targeted markets for CyxPro^® V2.0.

“It was important for us to rely on a collision detector which is both fast and robust” explains Eric Auschitzky, Nuclear BU Director. “We did a careful comparison of available options and selected KCD™”.

KCD™ is the high-efficiency collision detector from Kineo CAM. It comes as a software library, which allows an easy integration through its C++ programming API.

Using 3D geometrical data, KCD™ compares two lists of geometrical objects and quickly returns a series of data to answer the following: are there possible collisions? If so, where are they located? If not, what is the distance separating them (estimated or exact)?

“Users from more than a hundred companies from Japan to the United States already rely on KCD™ as part of its integration into 3D CAM-CAD software from major software vendors” said Laurent Maniscalco, CEO of Kineo CAM; “Nevertheless, its integration within CyxPro^® 2.0 is exemplary due to the fact that KCD™ is being used similarly to a real robot: we are moving toward real time and embedded world, another challenge our R&D is taking on.”