Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to design an interactive industrial robotic system which can be used to assist a “layperson” in re‐casting a generic pick‐and‐place application. A user can program a pick‐and‐place application simply by pointing to objects in the work area...

Purpose – Aims to demonstrate how an automated robot program generation method can be developed and implemented. Design/methodology/approach – A visual and force servoing method to automatically generate robot paths and robot programs, based on position, force and vision sensor fusion, was...

The development of models for evaluating the performance of resource contention systems, such as manufacturing systems, computer systems, and communication networks, is often a difficult and complex task. This modeling effort can be dramatically reduced by the use of appropriate software tools....