Towards Content Oriented Integration of Product and Robot System Models

An approach and method to integrate virtual engineering and robot systems is introduced. The main idea is extended application of the principle of shape aspect that is well-proven in part modeling. Shape intensive robot system is engineered by using of shape modeling. Shapes are connected by special aspects in a shape aspect oriented model system. The main purpose of the proposed approach and method is better communication between product modeling and robot related engineering. Associativity definitions integrate part level functions into product level functions while behaviors and adaptivities are also handled as aspects. Paper starts with introduction and comparison of classical industrial product modeling and the proposed integrated product and robot system modeling. Following this, extended application of shape aspects and definition of connective aspects are detailed. Finally, implementation in open architecture industrial modeling systems is explained and future work is outlined.