Procedural Animation for Intuitive Industrial Robot Programming

Summary

Industrial robots are hard to program without specialist training, which keeps them out of reach for many designers and educators. This paper proposes procedural animation as a more intuitive way to program them: the user describes high-level actions and the system resolves the low-level constraints. A workflow connects the Blender animation environment to robot control through a visual programming language, so robot motion is animated rather than written as toolpaths. Task examples show reduced programming complexity and let novices create adaptable robot motions with little training.

Key Contributions

Procedural animation as a method for programming industrial robots through high-level actions
A workflow linking Blender to robot control through a visual programming language
Task examples showing reduced programming complexity for novice users

Conference Details

Conference: SIGraDi 2025: Meta Responsive Approaches, XXIX Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics
Location: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Argentina
Dates: November 19-21, 2025
Pages: 1075-1086
Keywords: Robots, Procedural Animation, Real-Time Control, Visual programming, Simulation
DOI: 10.52842/conf.sigradi.2025.1.1075
CUMINCAD: sigradi2025_198

Citation

@inproceedings{pacheco2025procedural,
  title={Procedural Animation for Intuitive Industrial Robot Programming},
  author={Pacheco Alcala, Luis Arturo and Gannon, Madeline and Vassigh, Shahin},
  editor={Hern{\'a}ndez, S. P. and Boccolini, S. M. and Herrera, P. C.},
  booktitle={Meta Responsive Approaches - Proceedings of the XXIX Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2025)},
  address={C{\'o}rdoba, Argentina},
  year={2025},
  pages={1075--1086},
  doi={10.52842/conf.sigradi.2025.1.1075}
}