A Study on the Usability Evaluation of Teaching Pendant for Manipulator of Collaborative Robot

Jeyoun Dong, Wookyong Kwon, Dongyeop Kang, Seung Woo Nam

Abstract: Nowadays, a collaborative robot, known as a cobot, is a robot that can learn multiple tasks and assist alongside human workers. Thus, it plays a key role in the usage of a teaching pendant controlling the collaborative robot. However, it is gap to control a cobot and a teaching pendant proficiently between beginners and skilled engineer. Programming for teaching requires coding knowledge by line and it takes time to understand the instruction of existing teaching pendants.