Interoperability of Standards for Robotics in CIME

This ESPRIT volume reports on the InterRob project to close the information chain between product design, simulation, programming, and robot control. ESPRIT Project 6457 "Interoperability of Standards for Robotics in CIME" (InterRob) had as its first goal the development of standardized interfaces and their software implementation for ISO 10303 STEP and DIN 66312 IRL. This continued previous Esprit projects CAD*I and NIRO. The InterRob approach is based on standardized models for product geometry, kinematics, robotics, dynamics, and control, hence on a coherent neutral information model of the process chain from design to manufacturing. The second main goal was to increase the accuracy of off-line programmed robots. The results were demonstrated in industrial applications.