PRC.Core 1.732.0

PRC.Core

Parametric Robot Control (PRC) simulates, programs and controls industrial and collaborative robots. A PRC Server runs the kinematics, the collision checking and the program generation and communicates with the robot controllers. Clients such as the PRC plugin for Grasshopper, or your own software, talk to the server over gRPC.

PRC.Core is the object model every other PRC package is built on. It has no dependency on a server, a robot vendor or a network stack. It contains:

• Robot definitions: robots, tools, bases, external axes such as linear rails and positioners, collision geometry and the vendor classification.
• Commands: tasks, motion groups and motions with their targets, speeds and interpolation settings, actions such as waits and I/O, and flow control.
• Primitives and geometry: coordinate systems, joint and Cartesian targets, robot states, meshes and convex hulls.
• Results and settings: simulation results with the sampled axis data, the reachability, singularity and collision flags and the generated program files, feedback and variables, and the typed driver settings the PRC Server renders as its settings pages.

Reference this package on its own when a component of yours only produces or consumes PRC objects, for example a plugin that builds tasks for a host application that owns the server connection.

The PRC packages

Use the package version that matches your PRC Server. Server and packages share one version scheme and are released together.

Getting started

For a .NET application that drives a PRC Server, add PRC.GRPC, which brings this package along, and follow its readme. The PRC Server is available from portal.robotsinarchitecture.org.

Documentation

• Documentation — the PRC manual.
• PRC Integration Guide — the complete reference of the gRPC API and the object model behind it: every message and call, coordinate systems, units, settings and worked examples. Written for developers and as context for LLM-assisted integration.
• PRC.Integrations — sample integrations for several platforms and languages, plus the current proto definition.
• Contact: johannes@robotsinarchitecture.org

Requirements

• .NET 8.0 or later.

Disclaimer: This software is provided "as is" without any warranties or guarantees. The creators and developers of this software do not accept any liability for any damages or losses arising from its use.