COATING METHOD AND CORRESPONDING COATING INSTALLATION

The invention relates to a method for coating a component (4), e.g. a motor vehicle, using a robot (1, 3) wherein the component (4) is surveyed, for example by means of a camera (5) travelling a measuring path, and wherein deviations from the defined coating path (13, 15) are corrected in light of the survey. The method comprises, in particular, the following steps: (a) specifying at least one coating path (13, 15); (b) specifying reference values of the three-dimensional boundary point positions and/or of the boundary point orientations for boundary points on the edges of the surface region of the component (4); (c) three-dimensionally surveying position, orientation and/or shape of the component (4) to be coated or of a part of the component to be coated by means of a measuring system; (d) determining the variance between the measured values for the boundary point positions and/or the boundary point orientations on the one hand and the reference values of the boundary point positions and/or the boundary poi