V/I‐A visual instruction software system for programming industrial robots

Abstract

The visual instruction software system was designed with typical industrial situations serving as guidelines. The programmer is assumed to have little knowledge of computers. Rather, he is expected to have a detailed knowledge of the task to be performed. The V/I system provides a safe and simple means to communicate this knowledge to the robot control computer. The design of a software system for programming industrial robots is presented. This software system allows the robot's task to be described through visual means. Television cameras and hand‐held arrays of small lights permit the time spent in programming a robot to be radically reduced. Programmers need only place an array of lights in the robot's field of view and press a button on a hand‐held keyboard to specify robot hand position and orientation. Hence, time delays usually encountered when co‐ordinating the movement of robot arm joints are eliminated.

Citation

Kelley, R.B. and Silvestro, K.C. (1977), "V/I‐A visual instruction software system for programming industrial robots", Industrial Robot, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 59-75. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004476