Opportunities for research on numerical control machining

1 June 1986

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 29 (6) , 515-522
https://doi.org/10.1145/5948.5951

Abstract

Numerical control (NC) machining could be reinvigorated by adapting robotic software technology. Regrettably, pressures are mounting in industry to constrain robots to NC standards, and the academic community views NC as an obsolete, solved problem, with little remaining scholarly challenge. Grossman examines the current status of APT, an NC language, and proposes the merging of APT with a modern robotics language.

Keywords

ADAPTING
MACHINING
NUMERICAL CONTROL
LANGUAGE
MOUNTING
REGRETTABLY
REINVIGORATED
GROSSMAN

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Robot programming
Proceedings of the IEEE, 1983
AUTOPASS: An Automatic Programming System for Computer Controlled Mechanical Assembly
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 1977