ACT: a robot programming environment

Author

Mazer, Emmanuel ; Pertin-Troccaz, Jocelyiie ; Lefevre, Jean-Michel ; Faverjon, Bernard ; Ijel, Ammar ; Bellier, Christine ; Ferrari, Bruno ; Barret, Marc ; Sellers, Philippe ; Lefebvre, Jean Marc ; Hassoun, Mouna ; Alchami, Oussama

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Inf. Fondamentale et d´´Intelligence Artificielle, Grenoble, France

fYear

1991

fDate

9-11 Apr 1991

Firstpage

1427

Abstract

The authors describe ACT, a system designed to plan and monitor robot motions using a geometric representation of the environment. The goal in developing ACT was to design a system which could be used in industrial applications as well as a software basis to develop new robot programming techniques in the academic environment. ACT is intended to provide the user with advanced programming tools such as inline path planning and graphic monitoring of robot tasks. The project included developments not directly related to robotics but which were essential to enhance these new programming techniques. For example, a special user interface was developed to specify the robot tasks as well as to interface with existing CAD modelers. The authors present the technical choices made in developing the system and the most technically innovative parts of the system

Keywords

control system CAD; graphical user interfaces; programming environments; robot programming; ACT; CAD; geometric representation; graphic monitoring; inline path planning; robot programming environment; user interface; Application software; Computer industry; Displays; Graphics; Monitoring; Orbital robotics; Robot motion; Robot programming; Service robots; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1991. Proceedings., 1991 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sacramento, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2163-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1991.131815

Filename

131815