Patent Document ID: 9063535
Application ID: 13723408

Base Claim:
1. A method for controlling a robot comprising the steps of: storing a numerical control language program in a mass storage device connected to a central processing unit, the numerical control language program adapted to be executed by a computer numerical control machine tool to perform a manufacturing process; operating the central processing unit to convert the numerical control language program into a robot language program based upon a pre-defined conversion configuration table having discrete configuration instructions for converting each numerical control language positional command to a robot language positional command and converting each numerical control language miscellaneous code command to a robot language sub-program; storing the robot language positional commands and the robot language sub-programs as the robot language program in the mass storage device; and executing the robot language program with a robot controller connected to the mass storage device and the robot at a run-time of the robot to perform the manufacturing process.

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Claim 4:
4. The method according to claim 1 including performing the step of converting to provide a one-to-one correspondence between instruction lines of the robot language program and instruction lines of the numerical control language program.