Patent ID: 7979161

Claim:
A taught point correcting device for correcting a taught point in an operation program of a robot, said device comprising: a first judging section judging whether position data of any of a plurality of different taught points, previously taught and included in an operation program, has been corrected or not; a data correction section correcting, when said first judging section judges that position data of a first taught point among said plurality of different taught points has been corrected, position data of a correlative taught point defined to have a relative positional relationship with said first taught point so as to satisfy said relative positional relationship, in accordance with a taught-point rule previously describing a specified relative positional relationship and names of at least one set of taught points having said specified relative positional relationship in connection with said plurality of different taught points; and a second judging section judging, when said first judging section judges that said position data of said first taught point has been corrected, whether a correction of said position data of said first taught point is valid or not, in accordance with said taught-point rule; wherein said data correcting section corrects said position data of said correlative taught point when said second judging section judges that said correction of said position data of said first taught point is valid.