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Teach

Meaning in robotics & automation, with examples

/tiːtʃ/verbCore term

In robotics & automation, teach means: In robotics, to move the robot to a position and save that position in the program, so the robot can return to it automatically later.

In Turkish: öğretmek, nokta öğretmek, kaydetmek

How it is used

The basic action of programming a robot on site. You teach a point, position or frame, and you re-teach or touch up a point when the part changes. Related phrases: teach mode, teach-in programming, a taught point. The past tense is taught.

Example sentences

  1. Teach the pick position with the part in the fixture, not from the drawing.

  2. We had to teach all the weld points again after we moved the jig.

Common collocations

  • teach a point
  • re-teach
  • teach mode
  • touch up a point
  • teach-in programming
  • teach pendantThe handheld control unit, with a screen, keys and an emergency stop button, that is connected to the robot controller and used to move, program and monitor the robot.
  • jogTo move a robot or machine axis by hand in small steps or at low speed, usually by holding keys on the teach pendant, to position it or check a movement.
  • waypointA point the robot passes through on its way to a target, used to shape the path and keep the arm away from obstacles. It is not a position where work is done.
  • home positionA safe, known starting position that a robot or machine returns to before starting a cycle, after a stop or before being switched off.
  • offline programmingWriting and testing robot programs on a computer using a 3D simulation of the robot and its cell, instead of teaching points on the real robot with the pendant.

More terms: Robot Programming

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