Supporting CAD automatic motion planning, Kineo Path Planner™ software enables users to automatically plan the optimal path of articulated (robots) or nonarticulated (mechanical assembly) systems in a 3-D environment. The software, developed by French company Kineo CAM, ensures a continuous, collision-free assembly or extraction path.
Because it can be integrated into existing design tools used by operators, Kineo Path Planner™ can provide innovative technological responses for the product design and digital model review phases. The high level of integration offered permits all assembly, disassembly, maintenance, and part interchangeability constraints for the automobile and aeronautics sectors to be taken into account from the product design stage.
Wide-scale deployment with nonexpert users is possible, reducing time required for some tasks from hours into minutes. Kineo Path Planner™ can be used without any special parameters, allowing users to exploit and save the results of a calculation.
When reviewing a digital model, especially for aspects such as accessibility, ergonomics, manufacturing robotics, and maintainability, Kineo Path Planner™ takes into account the different geometrics (collision avoidance) and kinematics-related (robot movement, for example) constraints. It uses the latest probability-based motion-planning technology, so that it automatically finds a solution with minimal calculation time, even for systems with various degrees of freedom in highly cluttered environments.
Kineo Path Planner™ performs a detailed analysis of the paths obtained so that valuable design information can be exchanged with a view to putting forward the relevant design modifications in specific, accurate terms.