The holonic model of tasks performed by industrial robots in terms of the markup language

The paper discuss the problem of representing the description of tasks performed by robot in the way that is both human-intelligible and machine-processable. This issue is important from the point of view of the organization of work of a technological process engineer and a robot programmer – such method could be seen as a tool that allows to describe the work performed by a robot or a group of robots and facilitates the creation of an appropriate program. This matter is not simple to solve, because robots’ manufacturers use different specifications, programming languages and robots’ manipulators have different construction. In order to overcome the difficulties and allow the further machine processing, the markup language has been used. Moreover, the holons philosophy has been used as the way of dividing the sequence of activities performed by the robot into smaller, coherent parts.