This paper proposes an operation guidance strategy for industrial robot having a hand-guiding device. In case of use of multi-axes interface for hand-guiding operation, it is difficult to operate a robot without moving it to unintended directions. In this strategy, each operation phase is associated with combination of the controllable axes at first, and then a robot recognizes a list of operation phases as an operation guidance. The robot allows the operator to select controllable axes in accordance with the operation phases while hand guiding operation. The effectiveness and performance of the guidance are confirmed through assembly experiments by using the hand guiding robot.
