Towards a new concept of robot programming in high speed assembly applications

In this paper, we present work about robot control architecture, assembly planning and task planning for manufacturing robots. The interface between an offline planning unit and control systems is handled with skill primitives. Thus, skill primitives and skill primitive nets are explained in detail. Our long term aim is to combine robot control with task and assembly planning, so that with less human interaction manufacturing costs can be reduced. Even parallel kinematic machines provide enormous opportunities to reduce cycle times and thus the benefit should not be wasted by expensive specialized robot programming. Thus, we give an overview of our system and focus on some aspects to implement such a sophisticated system.