AUTOMATIXARON
Conveyor with three robots
Aim of the lesson:
In this lesson the students will design an industrial process consisting of three robot manipulators, and they will program each robot to do a simple coordinated task.
Lab tasks:
The task of this lab is as follows:
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Create a new project consisting of three UR10 Universal Robot manipulator arms, two tables and a conveyor belt. Equip the first two robots with grippers, and the last one with a welder gun. Add three objects to the first table.
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Write a program for the manipulator A which grabs the objects from the first table and puts them on the conveyor belt (the coordinates must be calculated analytically).
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Write a program for the manipulator B which grabs the objects from the conveyor when they arrive, and puts them on the second table (to a predefined location).
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Write a program for the manipulator C which welds the upper four edges of the objects.
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Create the Main program which runs all the specific programs, this should look like:
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Universal Reset
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Run Conveyor
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Feed Conveyor
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Get Conveyor
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Weld Target
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Offline simulation of a pick and place program
Add a new program.
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The first instruction is advised to be the "replace objects" by setting every objects position (relative) as defined by the user - this is a reset function in case of misalignment or deleted parts.
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Set the reference to the robot manipulator base.
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Set the tool to the gripper.
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Create a joint movement with the manipulator Home position as target - this command assures that the manipulator starts the routine from the same configuration.
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Create the joint movement to the box object.
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Attach the box to the gripper with an event instruction.
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Test out the different movements (Joint, Linear, Circular).
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Create the path given by the following graph (every coordinate given is in mm for (x,y) ), and release the object from the gripper:
The smooth command will round corners of a path by a given length (mm) or percentage(%).
Pause instructions can be added for the robot to wait for an object or for a given time interval.
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Test the program in a loop, fix any run-time errors or singularity errors if there are any.
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Generate and study the robot manipulator scrip.