Abstract: A method of handling a manipulator of an industrial robot, the manipulator including a base member, a mounting interface and a kinematic chain between the base member and the mounting interface, the kinematic chain including the base member, the mounting interface and at least one controllable joint, the method including providing a candidate trajectory for the manipulator, the candidate trajectory being associated with a candidate path; receiving a load location input from a user, the load location input being associated with a load location associated with the industrial robot outside the kinematic chain; and calculating load values of a load parameter that will affect the load location if the candidate trajectory is executed. A control system and an industrial robot are also provided.

Abstract: A method of controlling a manipulator of an industrial robot having a plurality of joints, the method including providing a candidate trajectory for the manipulator; determining at least one position dependent load value representative of at least one position dependent load acting on the manipulator for the candidate trajectory; modifying the candidate trajectory based on the at least one position dependent load value to provide a modified trajectory; and executing the modified trajectory by the manipulator. A control system for controlling a manipulator of an industrial robot having a plurality of joints, and an industrial robot including a manipulator and a control system, are also provided.

Abstract: A method of controlling an industrial actuator, the method including providing a plurality of consecutive input target points, of which at least one is an intermediate input target point; for one or more of the at least one intermediate input target point, defining at least one virtual target point associated with the intermediate input target point; for one or more of the at least one virtual target point, defining a blending zone associated with the virtual target point; and defining a movement path on the basis of the at least one virtual target point and the at least one blending zone. A control system is also provided.

Abstract: A system and a method, for assisting a user in programming a robot. Storage circuitry includes predefined possible values for a physical condition of at least two joints, the values being subdivided into two or more ranges. Processing circuitry is arranged to acquire a first path of the Tool Centre Point (TCP), receive, for each of a plurality of points of the first path and for the joints, a value associated with the physical condition at the respective points, determine which of the ranges the value is associated with, generate at least one additional path, associate each of the at least two joints to a respective path, and send instructions to a display, to illustrate the first path and the additional path, together with the information of which range the values are associated with at the plurality of points of the paths.

Abstract: A method for controlling an industrial actuator (26), the method comprising defining a movement path (10) as a sequence of a plurality of consecutive movement segments (14), where each movement segment (14) is defined between two points (16); defining at least one blending zone (12, 50, 52) associated with one of the points (16) between two consecutive movement segments (14), wherein the blending zone (12, 50, 52) is defined independently in relation to each of the two consecutive movement segments (14); and executing the movement path (10) comprising the blending zone (12, 50, 52) by the industrial actuator (26). A control system (30) for controlling an industrial actuator (26) and an actuator system (24) comprising an industrial actuator (26), are also provided.