Appeal No. 1998-2740
Application 08/438,492
processing device.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A robot movement programming method for creating a
program for moving a robot along a movement path using an
information processing device, said method comprising the steps
of:
(a) creating at least one sample program for specifying
sequence patterns of movement of the robot for at least one
sample workpiece, and registering the at least one sample program
in a pattern library;
(b) defining parameters representing geometric quantities
of said sample workpiece for the respective sequence patterns
specified by said sample program created in said step (a);
(c) defining conversion formulas for obtaining position
data of teaching points for determining the movement path using
said parameters for said sample workpiece;
(d) determining the sequence of the robot movement by
selecting one sequence pattern from said sequence patterns
created in said step (a), and registering the at least one sample
program, the one sequence pattern, the parameters, and the
conversion formula in the pattern library for said sample
workpiece;
(e) editing values of said parameters in said conversion
formulas defined for the sequence pattern selected in said step
(d) for a new workpiece of the same or common shape but having
different dimensions;
(f) calculating the teaching point position data with
respect to the movement sequence determined in said step (d), by
software means based on said conversion formulas and said
parameter values for said new workpiece; and
(g) obtaining a robot movement program based on said
teaching point position data calculated in said step (f) for said
new workpiece.
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