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Automatic simulation of a robot program for a sequential manufacturing process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Witold Jacak  and
Jerzy W. Rozenblit
Witold Jacak
Affiliation:
Institute of Technical Cybernetics, Technical University of Wroclaw, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50–370 Wroclaw (Poland).
Jerzy W. Rozenblit
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (U.S.A.).
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Summary

This paper presents a framework for the design of a hierarchical Simulator of a robotized sequential technological process. The framework employs concepts of discrerte event simulation modelling. The Simulator consists of two layers: the Simulator of a robot and technological process, and the interpreter and planner of robot tasks. A format specification of both layers is presented. The proposed simulation approach is expected to result in significant improvements in the robot task plan generation and in higher efficiency of a technological process.

Keywords

Robot MotionSimultaionProcess ModelingSequential manufacturing

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Robotica , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 45 - 56
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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