Augmented reality in robot programming

Industrial robots have been traditionally programmed using teaching pendants, whereas offline programming methods are getting increasingly popular in recent years. Although the above two methods are widely-used in the industry, they both have certain disadvantages. For instance, the teaching pendant...

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Published inProcedia computer science Vol. 176; pp. 1221 - 1230
Main Authors Zhang, Fengxin, Lai, Chow Yin, Simic, Milan, Ding, Songlin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2020
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augmented reality
commercially-available software
industrial robot
programming
augmented reality
commercially-available software
industrial robot
programming
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Summary:Industrial robots have been traditionally programmed using teaching pendants, whereas offline programming methods are getting increasingly popular in recent years. Although the above two methods are widely-used in the industry, they both have certain disadvantages. For instance, the teaching pendant method requires a shutdown of the production line during the programming process, while offline programming method requires 3D CAD models of both the robot and the workpiece. In this paper, an augmented reality (AR) application which alleviates the aforementioned problems was proposed for robot programming purposes. The application is created using commercially available AR software, with the addition of our JavaScript code. The use of commercially available software allows an easier sharing and widespread adoption of the application.
ISSN:1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2020.09.119