A picture or a thousand words?

ABB is developing a solution to the problem of cell engineering with a fast and user-friendly graphical-based model for intuitive robot programming. Graphical models of work cell production and the safety position form the basis of a user-friendly graphical interface which includes an element library from which programming elements are dragged into the work space and configured. Clicking a dragged programming element reveals its properties. Actions bound with a robot target are triggered when the robot arrives at the robot target. The user can write rapid instructions to implement the branch motion logic. Flowcharts or graphs are popular in the graphical-based programming approach, and many application products with graphical or icon-based programming models are offered by robot suppliers.