As robots interact with a broader range of end-users, end-user robot programming has helped democratize by empowering end-users who may not have experience in to customize meet their individual contextual needs. This article surveys work on programming, focus program specification. It describes the primary domains, phases, and design choices represented literature. The survey concludes highligh...

The scenario of general-purpose programming systems is rapidly changing; what are the consequences for robot programming? The programming environments built around ADA, UNIX, and lnterlisp are useful for robot programming? After introducing the peculiar aspects of robot programming we will discuss some examples of general-purpose languages applied to robots and languages specifically designed f...

The use of robots in SME production environments requires programming systems that decrease programming effort and can be used by process experts rather than robotics experts. The core sources of information available to the robot system are human input, sensor data and model data. However most programming systems only connect one or two of these information sources to generate robot programs. ...

Most currently used industrial robots are still programmed by a teach pendant, especially in the automotive industry. However the importance of off-line programming in industry as an alternative to teach-in programming is steadily increasing. The main reason for this trend is the need to minimize machine downtime and thus to improve the rate of robot utilization. Nonetheless, for a successful a...

Abstract Highly-skilled engineers are needed to reprogram a welding-robot upon new variant or product introduction. This paper addresses the complexity of programming process by proposing and demonstrating theoretical concept “elementary welding operation” (EWO). The EWO is fundamental building block for robot-welding programs containing most data necessary generate program automatically. descr...