Recently, various robot off-line programming systems have promoted their own robot data models, resulting in a plethora of robot representation methods and unchangeable data files among CAx and robot off-line programming systems. The current paper represents a STEP-compliant Industrial Robot Data Model (IRDM) for data exchange between CAx systems and robot off-line programming systems. Using th...

Pyro, which stands for Python Robotics, is a Python-based robotics programming environment that enables students to explore topics in robotics. Programming robot behaviors in Pyro is akin to programming in a high-level general purpose programming language; Pyro provides abstractions for low-level robot-specific features much like the abstractions provided in high-level programming languages. Co...

Robot programming methodologies are moving from the traditional "Teach" and "O ine" into more human friendly, rapid and exible programming alternatives. In this paper a new Visual Robot Programming Methodology is introduced. The proposed programming methodology physically disconnects the robot programmer from the robot itself. Thus, the operator can move freely around in the production faciliti...