Augmented Reality Interface for Direct Robotic Welding Path Programming
PUBLICATION DATE: 6 June, 2026 PUBLICATION AUTHOR/S: Wei Win Loy, Jared W Donovan, Markus RittenbruchPublished in DIS ’26: Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Robotic welding path programming is commonly framed as a technical problem addressed through expert-oriented tools. This pictorial presents a Research-through-Design (RtD) exploration of an Augmented Reality (AR) interface that allows operators to define seam and tack welding paths directly on physical workpieces using gestural input, while receiving immediate visual feedback on robotic reachability derived from inverse kinematics.
This pictorial documents a series of design interactions in which system was progressively refined through deployment and designerly reflection, and examining how spatial interaction and infrastructural breakdowns can influence human understanding of robotic constraints during welding path planning. Through annotated images and reflective accounts of system use, this pictorial contributes (1) an AR-based path planning workflow that supports both seam and tack welding, and (2) design knowledge on how computational and visual feedback mediates embodied human-robot negotiation.
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