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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Robot programming languages


Robotics is a form of industrial automation. An industrial robot is a general purpose programmable machine.  A robot possesses human like characteristics. In 1973, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory developed the first textual robot language WAVE. Later the same organization developed a new language called AL. First commercially available robot textual language is VAL (Victor’s Assembly Language) in which many of the features of WAVE and AL are retained. VAL was developed by Unimation Inc. for its PUMA robot series.  They upgraded this language (VAL II) in the year 1984. Later IBM Corporation developed two robot languages AUTOPASS and AML. Some other robot languages are RAIL developed by automatix, MCL by McDonnell-Douglas and HELP by general electric company.  The three basic modes of operation of a robot language operating system are monitor mode, run mode and exit mode. The overall supervising control is achieved by the monitor mode. For the execution of robot program, run mode is used. The edit mode provides instructions which allow the user to write new programs or to edit existing programs.

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