Features for Behaviors, Adaptivities and Processes in Modeling of Industrial Robot Systems

The authors report a research about environment adaptive model objects and their application in unified and comprehensive modeling of an industrial robot system. The proposed method makes it possible to utilize modeling and models that are applied in leading industrial CAD/CAM systems. The main essence of the reported work is application of behavior and adaptivity features in a shape-modeling environment where all shapes on all parts of a robot and product manipulated by them are described by application oriented form features. The task is an integration of product description, modification and analysis with robot system and robot process description in a full associative system. The authors introduce an approach and some methodologies for this special purpose modeling. Implementation of the proposed methods is conceptualized as integration of commercial program and robot products. The integrator is a proposed special purpose model that can be realized by using of open architecture development tools as available in industrial CAD/CAM systems. The paper outlines the present situation and the proposed modeling. Then role of behaviors and source of human originated knowledge are discussed. Following this, extended application of the feature principle in the proposed modeling is detailed and illustrated by the example of part placing. Key-Words: product modeling, behavior based modeling, modeling by features, robot control in manufacturing, largescale integration of models.