WebROBOT: Internet based robotic assembly planning system

WebROBOT is an Internet based assembly planning system for intelligent task level programming of assembly robots. Developed as the client-server architecture, WebROBOT typically enables the client to graphically synthesise and model the world, specify assembly tasks, enable automated task/motion planning, generate robot control program and transfer it to the remote robot site through server. Clients can communicate with the robot administrator through chat to set up and execute the robot program in the real assembly world. The design and implementation issues of WebROBOT are presented at length in this paper. (C) 200