... skills are required to operate it. In summary, robot programs are generated with a high‐level of abstraction from the robot language. Pedro Neto can be contacted at: pedro.neto@dem.uc.pt © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Robots Programming Computer aided design Industrial...

... methodologies based on the CAD models of parts. Robotics Control applications Coating processes Painting Computer aided design The tool model or paint distribution model is used for two primary purposes: 1. for paint path planning; and 2. for the paint distribution simulation...

...” published in Industrial Robot, Vol. 31, No. 1. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Robotics Welding Computer aided design When robots are used on the shop floor to perform welding tasks, users expect massive improvements in terms of flexibility, productivity and quality...

... results. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Spraying Robotics Computer aided design Assembly The spray forming technology is used for glass fiber preform fabrication (Chavka and Dahl, 1998). Many products, such as parts of automobiles, airplanes and construction, can...

... models, are still tricky and time‐consuming. It is common to have detailed data of working pieces in computer aided design (CAD) files, resulting from product design and project. This information is not used satisfactorily, or even not used at all, for robot programming. In this paper, we propose...