
This Esprit volume reports on a project for closing the information chain between product design, simulation, programming, and robot control by developing and implementing standardized interfaces.

The earlier ESPRIT Projects CAD*I (ESPRIT 322) and NIRO (ESPRIT 5109) have made significant contributions to the foundations of Product Data Technology, particularly in the standardisation of product descriptions and robot kinematics in STEP (ISO 10303) and in robotics programming...