INTUITIVE ROBOT PROGRAMMING BASED ON CAD DEALING WITH UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS (1ª parte)

• Autor(a) principal: J. norberto Pires
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Nuno Mendes, Ricardo Araújo, António Paulo Moreira, Pedro Neto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.inesctec.pt/handle/123456789/2276

The global market demands for cheaper, diversified and better quality products are forcing manufacturing companies to change their production facilities. Increasingly, traditional manufacturing is being replaced by flexible manufacturing systems where industrial robots are seen as a fundamental element. Nevertheless, robot programming is still a time consuming task that requires technical expertise. The pu rpose of this paper is to present a 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 and the role of sensory feedback as a way to make robots more autonomous and thus face uncertainty.