Virtual engineering: challenges and solutions for intuitive offline programming for industrial robot

It's currently the market trend to make industrial robot easy to use. This paper analyzed the key areas and identified key bottlenecks that stop a robot simulation and offline programming tool to be intuitive and easy to use. The key areas are geometrical model handling, robot targets and paths handling, path configuration planning, etc. Based on the analysis, the solutions for each of the identified key areas were provided from easy of use perspective. The proposed solution has been implemented as a software product based on RobotStudio, ABB's simulation and offline programming tool.