Design and off-line programming of a dual robot workcell for garment manufacture

摘要

A dual robot manufacturing cell which performs the stripping operation in garment manufacture is described. The mechanical structure of the robots, together with short programming cycle times mean that traditional robot programming techniques are not applicable. The paper describes the novel mechanical design and details the associated computer control system. Executing on standard computer and microprocessor hardware components, details of the software system which automatically generates robot motion programs from Computer Aided Design data are presented.