This paper evaluates the influence of target location on robot repeatabilit
y. An experiment was set up to analyze the effect of the three-dimensional
target location on robot repeatability. An error-analysis model to determin
e repeatability based on the robot's kinematic model and known robot parame
ters was developed. Experimental results indicated that there was a signifi
cant statistical difference between repeatability at different locations in
the workspace and that the height of the target point influenced repeatabi
lity. Experimental results tended to those derived from the error-analysis
kinematic model. Hence, to determine the optimal target location, there is
no need for extensive experimentation; instead, only a few target points ca
n be sampled and compared to an error-analysis model.