The idea of Virtual Teach-In in the field of industrial robotics

Abstract

This paper describes the idea to support the engineering process in the automation domain - especially in the field of industrial robots - via methods from virtual reality. Due to the technical progress like the industrial internet of things (IIOT) or the Industry 4.0 the complexity of automated production system increases. As a consequence, the engineering effort also increases. This paper focuses the task related to the programming of industrial robots via the common Teach-In method. A virtual reality environment known from the gaming domain is used for the virtual presentation of the production system including the robot. An interactive prototype is developed and evaluated with almost 25 users.