Corporate Profile: Innova Holdings, Inc.

Innova Holdings, Inc. is a robotics and automation technology company providing software and hardware systems-based solutions to the service, personal, and industrial robotic markets that include the military, space (NASA), eldercare, healthcare, homeland security, manufacturing, undersea exploration and R&D industries.

Innova Holdings focuses on providing PC open-architecture motion control solutions to the robotics, industrial and ancillary markets, which according to Frost & Sullivan accounts for over $1.4 billion in annual sales. The motion-control market includes software, hardware, and system integration services. Sophisticated controls are used on production equipment such as industrial robots and machine tools; in space, such as NASA’s robotic shuttle arm; homeland security; on military devices such as mobile robots; and with emerging technologies including robots used in medical procedures and pharmacies.

• RWT is a provider of patented open-architecture PC controls, software, and related products that improve the performance, applicability, and productivity of robots and other automated equipment in industrial environments.
• Innova Robotics, the marketing arm of Innova Holdings Inc., customizes and distributes Innova Holdings’ products to enable development of technologies in emerging markets.
• CoroWare, in Redmond, Wash., is a mobile service robotics specialist with unique expertise in robotics technologies, Web services integration, and embedded-systems development for applications such as reconnaissance, surveillance, disaster recovery and rescue, and security and surveillance.
• The CoroWare acquisition included CoroWare Test Labs in Pittsburgh, Pa. CoroWare Test Labs has the facility and a suite of applications for vendors to test unmanned vehicles for conformance with Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) standards, a Department of Defense initiative designed to ensure standards for military applications.

Company Products

The Universal Robotic Controller 3™ (URC3™) is the software and hardware-control system that operates a robot. It includes a Pentium™-based PC running Microsoft® Windows, RobotScript ® and dedicated processors that interface with robot motion mechanisms for real-time motion control of the robot.

RobotScript® and other software define the parameters of the robot’s task, coordinate input and output to and from auxiliary devices such parts, feeders, conveyors, tracks, the power train in mobile robots, and can communicate to other PC devices via a network or the Internet. The URC3 can control multiple 6-axis robots and integrated devices.

The Universal Automation Controller™ (UAC™), which is in the later stages of development, is a general-purpose motion-control system for automated machines with less than 6-axis of movement. The UAC provides the power of a full-featured motion controller and Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) in one easy to use PC control system. The UAC provides standard communications and interface ports, providing maximum flexibility in choosing off-the shelf user interface and communications components. RobotScript is also used to program this controller.

RobotScript® is a universal programming language based on Microsoft's .NET Framework, and can be used in a variety of development languages including Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C++. It provides a natural robot language programming environment that is intuitive, simple to use and easy to learn. Robotic programmers can easily control robot motion, coordinate input and output for auxiliary equipment, and communicate with other PCs. Challenges common to proprietary control schemes are eliminated. RobotScript can access anything on the operating system or network as well as utilize the Internet for remote monitoring and control of equipment.

RobotScript can also be easily used to create custom applications specific to customer needs. A software development kit (SDK) is provided to enable even novice developers to create a specialized interface quickly for a particular use in meeting a customer's needs.

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