Hello,
I will be programming 2 blue robots for the first time... (I have experience with ABB Kuka Fanuc & Staubli)
Here are some questions:
* For some reasons it will be needed to exchange safe signals with the safe PLC. For example, I would like to avoid that the robot leaves a safe zone during a specific "dangerous" situation. So the robot should set a SAFE output (twin contact) when the robot is in the zone. So when the robot leaves the zone, the safe PLC will decide to set an emergency stop if needed (depending of others conditions that are monitored by the safe PLC).
Or, the safe PLC can output a signal to a SAFE input of the robot controller when the dangerous situation is present; so the robot will stop itself if it leaves the safe zone. I have found on the Internet that there is a "FSU" option to check the speed, cartesian/joint position and so on...but I didn't find something related to safe I/Os. Is this possible with Motoman?
I have also seen that there is a Profinet with Profisafe board available; so maybe it is possible to exchange safe I/Os via the bus?
Do you have an idea of price for the FSU option?
*Do we need a software to program the robot?Or can we easily program everything from the TP?
If a software is needed, can you please give me the name of this soft + price of the license?
* System inputs/outputs to start; stop the robot and monitor the status of the program : can we set/get those signals via the bus? If yes, how does it work? Can we map these standard signals to the bus?
Thanks in advance,
Benoit