ROBOT SPEED COMPUTING APPARATUS AND METHOD

An improved method and apparatus for computing the speed of a robot. Specifically, the method and apparatus relate to calculating the speed of a robot based on the rated maximum speed of a joint of the robot and one of the current position and joint information. There are further aspects of the invention to calculate the speed of a scalar robot, a scalar robot with two degrees of freedom within a horizontal plane, a scalar robot with two degrees of freedom within a horizontal plane plus a front end shaft, a cylindrical robot having two degrees of freedom within a horizontal plane, and other configurations.