Engineering for industrial robots in content based virtual space

One of the main recent achievements in engineering is description of complex products and their physical environment in a single object model. This model has capabilities to serve engineering from the first specification of a product to recycling. New research programs were needed in order to establish a new style of engineering where engineers communicate model creation and application procedures. The authors joined to these efforts and developed new modeling methods for the above purpose. In this paper they introduce some of these methods considering needs by the complex and knowledge intensive engineering for robot systems. Paper starts with an outline of application of virtual spaces in robot system modeling. Following this, a content based contextual object definition is explained considering robotic application. Next, application of human control by contextual spaces for adaptive definition of engineering objects and the related control of product definition are shown. Finally, object space for robot system is outlined as application related issue of the proposed modeling.