Off-line programming of an industrial robot for manufacturing

A procedure for the automatic generation of the robot programming used in manufacturing operations is introduced in the present paper. The off-line programming system developed here includes graphical simulation of the robot and its workcell, kinematic model of the robot, motion planning and creation of the NC code for manufacturing process. The proposed system is applied in a robot with five revolute joints for manufacturing operations and in a robot with six revolute joints for welding operations.