Joining a up6 welder with a up130 as the positioner

    I have been playing with the idea of joining a up6 xrc welding robot with a up130 xrc handling robot we have. I have seen this done but in not sure what all is involved and what hardware i will need. what i would like to achieve is controlling both robots from a single teach pendent using the up130 as a slave to the up6 welder with synchronized motion. the up 6 already has the synchronized motion option and is currently equipped with dual positioned that will get removed when the up130 gets added. anyone ever done anything like this and know what all is involved and needed.

    You need the DR2C kit form Motoman, this is the cable that links the two controllers to make a dual robot. You will have to remove the playback box from the controller that is going to be R2 and move any I/O wiring from what is going to be R2 to the R1 controller (you would be better off having the UP130 as R1 and the UP6 as R2 because the XEW analog card can stay in the UP6). Once all this is done you will have to initialize the robot (you'll have to call Motoman because you need the high level code) making it a dual. There is no configuration for handling and welding, you will have choose weld and weld. This means there will be no more Hand on and Hand off commands, you will have to use digital outputs to open and close the grippers.

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    What kind of sample code? A DR2C is 2 robots on the same programming pendant. Can be robots of same or different size. Can be 2 robots doing 2 different things, both arc welding, 1 arc welding, 1 material handling, 2 handling robots, etc.

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