Abstract
Off-line programming software is widely used to simulate the robot-assisted work environment. RobotStudio, a product of ABB, offers off-line programming technology for industrial robot applications. Several software products that extend RobotStudio capabilities have been developed to meet special purposes. One such product is the Thermal Spray Toolkit. With the help of TST, RobotStudio can load the mesh information generated by ANSYS analysis software and then create the trajectory of robot spray operations with it. A method of arranging the index of grid nodes generated by ANSYS software is described in this article. The results show that TST can be successfully used to create a smooth robot trajectory, which corresponds to the requirements of industrial applications.
