A robot control apparatus is configured to include a power supply board including a power supply circuit and a driving board including a driving circuit that drives a robot with electric power supplied from the power supply board. In the thickness direction of the power supply board, the distance between a surface of the power supply board, on which the power supply circuit is provided, and a surface of the driving board, on which the driving circuit is provided, is smaller than the maximum height of the power supply board.

Disclosed herein is a functional module for forming a decentralized automation platform that the functional module is modularly connected to a plurality of further functional modules to provide a plurality of functions for the automation of an industrial plant in a modular manner, having: an electronic arrangement for providing at least one of the plurality of functions, a base body with a base body housing in which the electronic arrangement is arranged, a connection arrangement, arranged on the base body housing and/or is electrically connected to the electronics arrangement to provide an electrical connection for one of the plurality of further functional modules,
wherein the connection arrangement is designed to provide a main energy flow, an auxiliary energy flow and a data flow between the functional module and the connected further functional module i to operate the automation platform for automation of the industrial plant.