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Programming industrial robots in FMS (A survey with particular reference to off-line, high-level robot program generation using VAL, VAL-II, AML And MARTI)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Paul G. Ranky
Paul G. Ranky
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, NG1 4BU (U.K.)
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Summary

There is a great deal to be done in machine tool and robot programming research. The major problems include the slowness of the introduction of machine controllers, which have similar operating system and interfacing capabilities as the current 16 bit and 32 bit microcomputers, and the lack of intelligent, high-level standard languages, providing access not only at a high level, but also at the robot system programming level. The introduced and illustrated “MARTI” off-line robot program generator, under development by the author, attempts to provide software in this area.

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Robotica , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1984 , pp. 87 - 92
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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Further reading

1Ranky, P. G., ‘The Design and Operation of FMS (IFS and North Holland, UK and Holland, 1983).Google Scholar
2Ranky, P. G., The FMS Software Library, Software and Manuals (Rentec International, UK, 1982)Google Scholar
3User's Guide to VAL, a robot programming and control system (Unimation, USA, 1980)Google Scholar
4Taylor, R. H., Summers, P. D. and Meyer, J. M., ‘AML: a manufacturing language’ I. J. Robotics Res. 1, No. 3, 19–42 (1982).CrossRefGoogle Scholar