There are two crucial aspects when programming robot trajectories in many robot applications.

The first aspect is the choice of the robot configuration & the gripper Flip. Indeed, there are often up to eight configuration solutions with a pre-defined fixed orientation to achieve a defined robot pose. This configuration choice has a significant impact on the final cycle time.

The second aspect is calculating an optimal path that the robot must follow by avoiding collisions in the environment. The robot can move through several via-points between the start and end operation. These via-points can be chosen in different ways while avoiding obstacles, and their choice directly impacts the cycle time. An industrial robot generally evolves in complex environments, and the problem becomes more complicated. Thus, these via-points become hard to guess, especially when programming them manually.

Both aspects are addressed thanks to our "Robot Path Planning" feature available in the Robot Optimization APP [ROS]. This feature can optimize the robot's task while avoiding collisions automatically.

Here is a video showing how this feature can automatically solve collisions and configuration changes!

The video shows a step-by-step scenario where the initial Robot Task presents many collisions and configuration changes. Thanks to the "Path Path Planning" feature, the new calculated robot task solution removes unnecessary robot configuration changes. It adds via-points to avoid collisions even in a constrained environment (last robot spot operation).

This feature is available in the following roles:

     ·  Assembly Riveting System Programmer for Aerospace [RARSA]

     ·  Body-in-White Robot Programmer [RBWPR]

     ·  Body-in-White Robotics Engineer  [RBWRT]

     ·  Fabrication Robot Workcell Programmer for Industrial Equipment [RARWI]