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Robot for painting is one of the earliest applications for industrial robot, however, the precision and finishing for the painting is an important issue for any painting job. Accordingly, the aim of this project is utilize an industrial robot (ABB robot model IRB1410) for painting applications. The robot was programmed to paint alphabets using its Flexpendant. The FlexPendant was used to manually teach the robot how to follow the paths for specific targets of letters. The robot End Effector (painting tool) was chosen and mounted on the robot to perform an effective painting task. It was programmed based on its functionality. Finally suitable painting environment was designing. Two software packages were used in this project. The Computer Aided Design (CAD) of the system work-objects and end effector was programmed based on Solidworks software. Robotstudio Software used to program the paths and target of the alphabets to be painted by the IRB1400 Robot which generate a RAPID GUI code used for robot interfacing. The final results demonstrate that implementation such system helps to boost the quality of painting, reduce paint consumption and improve safety.

Industrial robot is widely used in small and medium workshops, however, the robot cooperating with other devices are important aspect for achieving the full autonomous system. This paper reports on the development of line follower mobile robot correlated with ABB industrial robot manipulator. The line follower mobile robot is a prototype model design and fabricated for material handling purpose. Thus, hardware components as well as software programming are concurrently developed with each other. Meanwhile, a specific micro-controller for the line follower robot associated with the ABB main controller is developed. A sensory system also attached for completing the operational loop. Experimental operation shows fully successful for the developed system. Hence, ABB industrial robot could incorporates further in low cost fully automation system.