Funding Organization
Center for Economic Growth
Principal Investigator
John T. Wen
Percent
100
Start Date
End Date
Amount
$25,000
Grant Status
Complete
Abstract
This project will develop algorithms to convert a specified robot tool trajectory to motion specification
using robot vendors’ robot programming languages. Currently industrial robots use waypoints to
specify robot motion. For complex tool trajectories (robot path indexed with time), manual fine tuning
of waypoint specification is needed to achieve the desired level of accuracy. This is time consuming and
tedious, and the result may be far from optimal. We aim to develop algorithms will automatically
generate the waypoints, blending regions, and velocity specifications to meet the tracking accuracy
requirement. The result will be demonstrated on robots from at least two different vendors.