Copyright ([) IFAC Intelligent Assembly and Disassembly. Bucharest. Romania . 2003 ELSEVIER IFAC PUBLICATIONS www .eisevier.comliocateiifac INTEGRATED SYSTEM USED FOR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION TO A ROBOT MAINFRAME Madalin Stefan VLAD, Valentin SGARCIU, Mihai CEAPARU "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, Splaiullndependentei 313, sector 6, 060032 Bucharest, ROMANIA E-mail: madalinv@aiipub .ro . vsgarciu@aiipub .ro. yahim@aiipub .ro Abstract: The paper presents an application developed for Java Card smart cards, with multiapplication support. Although the multiapplication support was not exemplified, the use of smart card for personal identification has some advantages, the most important beeing its security. In this paper are shown the structure of the application, various security systems, which ensure the access to a robot mainframe to only the designated people, who have rights to control the specified robot. Copyright © 2003IFAC Keywords: Smart Card, Multi-application Concept, Java Card, Access Control, Automatic Personal Identification I. INTRODUCTION In time, controlled access to computer applications and resources was a concern of the operating systems developers and also of the companies specialized in the digital security domain. Once smart cards were developed, protection of information has reached a new dimension. Today, a user's sensible data can be kept on a smart card, with a very low risk to be frauded. In robotics domain, the computer which manages the whole system, has an essential role in the process control of a robot. Data protection as well as controlled access is a very important requirement. Also, in order to ensure a good operation it is necessary to establish persons with decision rights in modifying the parameters of such a robot. 107 Outsourcing, a term often used today, can be used, by extrapolation, in this domain. Therefore, the "transfer" of security to the smart cards based systems confers to the whole system an increased saf ely factor. By developing specific applications, such as the one presented in this paper, one may control the persons' access to a robot mainframe, which, in most cases, is a dedicated computer. Also, in case several persons manage the system, one can identify quickly who is responsible for making not concordant commands, which can lead to a system crash. The personal identification application, developed for accessing an industrial robot resources can be used in connex domains, where one have systems. which communicates with a central database. For example, in a digital town is preferable to globalize information. In this case, a person can be "tracked" where he/she has made a specific electronic transaction, and in this way, the electronic fraud can be significantly reduced.