Conceiving of a High Level Language for Programming of the Machine Reconfiguration and Part Machining Dedicated to the New Reconfigurable Machine - Tools Generation

This paper is proposing a new approach of the RMT (Reconfigurable Machine Tool) programming. The approach is based on a new control architecture characterized by high level of reconfigurability. The programming consists in the building of two documents: i) machineprogram, concerning machine reconfiguration phase and ii) part-program, concerning the programming of the machine to process a specific part. A visual language architecture is proposed for the two documents, allowing a fast programming and a fine-grain control. This visual language is replacing the traditional G-code. In addition, the language allows the programming of the machine hardware reconfiguration, according to the current part family to be processed.