A robot system includes: a robot; a robot controller configured to control the robot based on sequential taught positions; and a teaching device communicative with the robot controller and configured to receive operations by an operator, wherein the robot controller includes circuitry configured to: generate, in response to determining that a target position is designated by the operator on the teaching device, a path from a current position of the robot to the target position by simulation of moving the robot based on surrounding environmental information of the robot; and move the robot toward the target position along the generated path.

A combustion simulation system is provided. The combustion simulation system can be performed using a computing device operated by a computer user or artist. The computer-implemented method of generating one or more visual representations of a combustion even is provided. The method includes simulating the combustion event, which transforms combustion reactants into combustion products, the combustion event occurring at a reference pressure, automatically determining values of combustion properties, the values of the combustion properties being calculated as a function of a nonzero pressure field, and generating the one or more visual representations of the combustion event based on the values of combustion properties.

An industrial control design and testing system allows vendor-specific digital twins of industrial robots to be imported into a vendor-agnostic simulation platform so that coordinated operation of the robots within the context of a larger automation system can be simulated and observed. Rather than requiring a designer to re-write the robot program in a format understandable by the simulation system, the design and testing system can link to instances of the vendor-specific robot simulation platforms to facilitate execution of the actual robot programs that will be installed and executed on the corresponding physical robots. This accurately simulates operation of the robots in a manner that requires less development work on the part of the designer and allows the robot's surrounding environment to be modeled and simulated more accurately than would be the case using a simulation platform specific to a particular robot vendor.

A combustion simulation system is provided. The combustion simulation system can be performed using a computing device operated by a computer user or artist. The computer-implemented method of generating one or more visual representations of a combustion even is provided. The method includes simulating the combustion event, which transforms combustion reactants into combustion products, the combustion event occurring at a reference pressure, automatically determining values of combustion properties, the values of the combustion properties being calculated as a function of a nonzero pressure field, and generating the one or more visual representations of the combustion event based on the values of combustion properties.

A computer-implemented method simulates an atmospheric phenomenon within a simulation volume. At each time step of a plurality of time steps, the method automatically determines a temperature distribution of the atmospheric phenomenon based on an assumption of fixed volume, and then automatically determines a velocity field of the atmospheric phenomenon, based on an assumption of adiabatic expansion.

A numerical controller is provided with a control unit configured to control a machine tool and acquire feedback data in relative positions of a tool and a workpiece, a machining simulation unit configured to perform simulation processing for machining based on a machining program and create the shape of the machined workpiece, and a display unit configured to display the machined workpiece shape created by the machining simulation unit. The machining simulation unit performs machining simulation processing using the feedback data acquired by the control unit, in place of relative movement paths for the tool and the workpiece based on a command by the machining program.

An industrial control design and testing system allows vendor-specific digital twins of industrial robots to be imported into a vendor-agnostic simulation platform so that coordinated operation of the robots within the context of a larger automation system can be simulated and observed. Rather than requiring a designer to re-write the robot program in a format understandable by the simulation system, the design and testing system can link to instances of the vendor-specific robot simulation platforms to facilitate execution of the actual robot programs that will be installed and executed on the corresponding physical robots. This accurately simulates operation of the robots in a manner that requires less development work on the part of the designer and allows the robot's surrounding environment to be modeled and simulated more accurately than would be the case using a simulation platform specific to a particular robot vendor.

A combustion simulation system is provided. The combustion simulation system can be performed using a computing device operated by a computer user or artist. The computer-implemented method of generating one or more visual representations of a combustion even is provided. The method includes simulating the combustion event, which transforms combustion reactants into combustion products, the combustion event occurring at a reference pressure, automatically determining values of combustion properties, the values of the combustion properties being calculated as a function of a nonzero pressure field, and generating the one or more visual representations of the combustion event based on the values of combustion properties.

Methods for simulating an object in a manufacturing line, wherein the object is placed on a conveyor in the manufacturing line. In the method, a position of the object is obtained from object data collected by a camera device deployed in the manufacturing line. A movement of the conveyor is determined from a controller of the conveyor. An object position of the object is obtained based on the determined position and an offset of the object caused by the movement of the conveyor. A virtual representation of the object is displayed at the determined object position in a virtual environment. With the virtual environment, the administrator of the manufacturing line may be provided with accurate states of the manufacturing line, based on which operations of a robot system that is to be deployed in the manufacturing line may be estimated.

Methods and apparatus for two-dimensional and three-dimensional scanning path visualization are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a parameter determiner to determine at least one of a laser beam parameter setting or an electron beam parameter setting, a melt pool geometry determiner to identify melt pool dimensions using the parameter setting, the melt pool geometry determiner to vary the parameter setting to obtain multiple melt pool dimensions, and a visualization path generator to generate a three-dimensional view of a scanning path for an additive manufacturing process using the identified melt pool dimensions, the visualization path generator to adjust the laser beam parameters based on the generated three-dimensional view.