CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
9 May 2008
Implementation Investments
Cybernetix’s CyxPro® Software for Monitoring Remotely-Operated Systems Integrates Kineo CAM’s KCD™ Collision-Detection Library
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.
Due 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 today the de-facto 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”.
About Cybernetix
Cybernetix is a world leader in robotics of complex systems in hostile environment. Created in 1985, the company relies on more than 150 engineers and technicians to answer business needs with strong competence in the fields of mechanics, electronics, automation, vision and data processing.
The main markets of Cybernetix are Nuclear dismantling and maintenance, monitoring and control of oil production, non-destructive testing (Tire manufacturing, Pharmaceutical manufacturing, Foundries), control of infrastructures (Railway) and protection (Defense).
CyxPro® V2.0 is available as of April 2008.
About Kineo CAM
Kineo Computer Aided Motion “Kineo CAM” is the independent software developer of the worldwide leading technology for automatic motion and path planning, KineoWorks™.
The main market of Kineo CAM is Mechanical Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing. In this area, the large range of solutions, from stand-alone to fully integrated software, enables digital mock-up users to save money, shorten development time and increase quality in Product Design (validation of mechanical mounting/dismounting) and Process (simulation of operations in cluttered 3D environments).
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