In order to improve the efficiency of drilling and riveting in the assembly process of large fuselage parts and meet the requirement of high precision drilling

a collaborate control scheme of auto-drilling rivet system composed of five-axis machine tool and end-effector is designed. The machine tool and high precision turntable are controlled by Huazhong numerical controller and the end-effector is controlled by the PLC program of Beckhoof. After making clear the drilling and riveting demands

the hardware configuration is designed based on industrial network and software configuration is designed based on multi-software platform. And the integrated control software of the host computer is written using Microsoft Visual Studio. The connection of the host computer control system with Huazhong NC system and Beckhoof PLC employs the Ethernet and EtherCAT

respectively. The development of Ethernet interface in the integrated control system uses Socket and some experiments on the combined machining machine tool are conducted. The control system has many advantages as follows: good stability

high integration

fast response and high efficiency

which can meet the requirements of drilling and riveting.