Industrial robot

In an industrial robot control system for controlling the positioning of a robot to a number of programmed operating positions and the execution of programmed operations in association with these operating positions, the control system comprising:

• first control means for positioning, during programming, the robot successively to said operating positions and for storing, at each operating position, information for positioning the robot to that operating position and information for controlling an operation to be carried out in association with that operating position,
• first memory means for storing information fed in via the first control means during programming, said information comprising a main program with a sequence of instructions which, during automatic operation of the robot, are successively executed;
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• second control means for controlling the robot during automatic operation in accordance with the information stored in said first memory means;
• the improvement wherein:
• the control system comprises second memory means for storing information defining a sub-program, which contains information for control of one of said operations;
• the first control means comprising an operating member arranged, upon a single activation during programming with the robot at an operating position, to cause storage in the first memory means of an instruction which, during automatic operation causes positioning of the robot to that operating position as well as calling for an execution of said sub-program.