User-friendly teaching tool for a robot manipulator in human robot collaboration

Needs for human-robot collaboration in production automation are increasing and thus the technology for human-robot collaboration is being actively developed. User-friendly teaching tool of a robot manipulator is one of essential technologies for efficient human-robot collaboration. This paper proposes an intuitive teaching tool that can be attached to the robot and can accurately teach motions without being affected by sensor noise. This device is designed to perform teaching work by a combination of a jog dial and buttons. A prototype was implemented to verify the proposed concept.