A robot teaching method using Hyper Card system

Author

Ishii, Masaru

Author_Institution

Fukuoka Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1992

fDate

1-3 Sep 1992

Firstpage

410

Lastpage

412

Abstract

Human and robot communication is becoming more important for the next generation robot systems. This paper describes a robot teaching system with user friendly interfaces in order to improve the conventional teaching methods. The hyper card system in the Macintosh computer is used for the robot teaching system because of its easy handling and excellent human interfaces. The program in the Hyper Card is written in HyperTalk and XCMD for sending commands to a robot system; each joint of the robot can be controlled by clicking the mouse buttons. As an example of this system, the robot teaching operations of grasping a bin and pouring liquid into a cup are carried out using only one third of the teaching time as compared with the conventional teaching method. Consequently, this robot teaching method using Hyper Card system provides a foundation for realizing a user friendly human and robot communication

Keywords

Apple computers; control engineering computing; graphical user interfaces; robot programming; Hyper Card system; HyperTalk; Macintosh computer; XCMD; bin grasping; liquid pouring; robot programming; robot teaching; user friendly interfaces; Computer interfaces; Control systems; Education; Educational robots; Grasping; Humans; Intelligent robots; Mice; Robotics and automation; Service robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Communication, 1992. Proceedings., IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0753-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.1992.253852

Filename

253852