Towards The Adaptive Laser Robot

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the actual implementation of a machining laser robot. The interactions between workpieces and beams over the various possible tasks and the various optimisation criteria are so complicated that no general model is available. A "learning-by-doing" iterative process based on a coding, by human experts, of the decision system under the form of "behaviour rules", is proposed as a solution when the device is attempted to be given some autonomous behaviour. The example of a restricted experimental variant, early stage in the robot life, is more detailed.