IMHO, using an industrial robot , even used one in good shape, dirt cheap in those recession times, should be cost, safe and time effective if you add costs in materials, time and risk.
I worked on the V_TRAJSIG ancestor before leaving Staubli.
I then worked on my own graphic user friendly version used in welding and grinding for big turbines repair and machining for the shoe industry. Absolutely same version can be connected to PUMA Val II robots, STAUBLI V+ robots and FANUC...
My job, among others, since 1990, is to guide robots with external vision system.
This approach is expensive for one robot, but can be cost effective for more than one.
I used "Barry Wright" cells several years ago.
It is quite impossible to use them while the robot is moving. You would have to compensate for acceleration.
And if you want to wheigh in any position , the cell has to be 6 axis, expensive.
I still have a 10 kg used cell in stock. Nobody wants it.
As far as I understood, BobM3 wants to download karel programs from his PC. He does need FKloppy. He also needs the OLPC compiler.
Then, when he will be able to download programs, he will try your download your RS232 communication program FnArObOtGuY !
I have used RFID for almost ten years in shoe factories.
We deal with about 1000 tags fitted on pallets
Each tag carries the process parameters for the individual shoe on the pallet and keeps track of every operation.
In our applications tags readers are connected to PC's through Jbus/Modbus...
Hi Rheinhardt,
I got my EE degree before PLC's ever exist. At that time we got lectures (and hands on) on electronic automation module based on Mealy transition machines. Five years later my school offered lectures on the first emerging PLC concept based on transition machine : the genuine...
Jonas,
It's not a new version of V_TRAJSIG, but a complete environment including V_TRAJSIG looking capabilities .
This is not a real product (advertised, documented ..) but a bunch of softwares I used to build process applications for the last ten years. More than 100 robots controlled by this...
Tygerdawg,
Ok I will keep it public.
As you are familiar with V_TRAJSIG, you should know Jacques Vuachet who left Staubli recently.
We worked together on the ancestor of V_TRAJSIG in the mid
80's, then I left Staubli. I then worked on my own version of V_TRAJSIG, written in C/C++, running on...
Jay,
To be more accurate.
The robotic application I'm speaking about is sort of machining application, welding , grindig or glueing.
By control in real time I mean, at the PC level, every 16 ms,new coordinates are sent to the robot according on its actual position received every 16 ms throuh...
Jay, I disagree.
I use RS232 to control, in real time, 6 axis robots on fairly fast (300 mmps) trajectories. I have more than hundred robots running that way, making shoes or reparing hydropower turbines.
Com speed is 19200 bds, refresh rate is 16 ms which is enough for 16 ms robot...
