How would you program continuous path control in a robot?
Interviewers will frequently ask you questions about how you go about performing your job. These are known as operational questions. Interviewers use these questions to confirm that you know how to do this job and see if your processes match those of their organization.
If you have done your research before the interview, you should be familiar with the operations the organization's robot programming team currently uses. Knowing this will enable you to frame your answer within the context of their operations and confirm that you are compatible with their team. It also provides you the opportunity to suggest more efficient ways to accomplish a task. This demonstrates to the interviewer that you can help the organization innovate and improve its processes.
"When writing a program to designate a continuous path that a robot or one of its appendages will follow, the first thing I do is map out the path. I can do this in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional space, noting key coordinates along the path. Once I have this information, it is relatively easy to write a program that includes these coordinated data points. Other aspects of the program may include the speed of the movement, acceleration, and any halts in the movement along the path."
