This paper presents an overview on the advantages an integrated symbolic connectionist approach can ooer for robot programming and control. It describes the functional dependency of symbolic and con-nectionist modules being parts of an hierarchical robot control system as well as their descriptive and methodological integration. Moreover, it is shown how both symbolic and connectionist learning...

This paper presents an overview on the advantages an integrated symbolic connectionist approach can ooer for robot programming and control. It describes the functional dependency of symbolic and con-nectionist modules being parts of an hierarchical robot control system as well as their descriptive and methodological integration. Moreover, it is shown how both symbolic and connectionist learning...

This paper presents a novel approach to facilitate the development and maintenance of translators for industrial robot programming languages. Such translators are widely used in robot simulation and offline programming systems to support programming in the respective native robot language. Our method is based upon a software architecture, that is provided as a complete translator framework. For...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a CAD-based human-robot interface that allows non-expert users to teach a robot in a manner similar to that used by humans to teach each other. Another important issue addressed here has to do with how robots deal with uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach – Intuitive robot programming is achieved by using CAD drawings to generate robot progr...

in this paper, according to high load capacity and rather large workspace characteristics of cable driven robots (cdrs), maximum dynamic load carrying capacity (dlcc) between two given end points in the workspace along with optimal trajectory is obtained. in order to find dlcc of cdrs, joint actuator torque and workspace of the robot constraints concerning to non-negative tension in cables are ...

In this paper, a new formulation along with numerical solution for the problem of finding a point-to-point trajectory with maximum load carrying capacities for flexible manipulators is proposed. For rigid manipulators, the major limiting factor in determining the Dynamic Load Carrying Capacity (DLCC) is the joint actuator capacity. The flexibility exhibited by light weight robots or by robots o...