the first thing that come's to mind is the sps. there you could write a function to pulse when the robot is halted
You could also use a WHILE loop and use that input as a condition. Inside the loop you can use your pulse as you want.
the first thing that come's to mind is the sps. there you could write a function to pulse when the robot is halted
Any alternative to that? Never touched SPS and don't want to mess it up inadvertently..
If I allow for a small delay (trying to avoid this) would something like this work instead? (rough draft):
DECL REAL STEP
STEP = 0.25
LIN P1
LIN P2
LIN P3
HALTPULSE()
LIN P4
LIN P5
LIN P6
HALTPULSE()
LIN …
…
END
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DEF HALTPULSE()
LOOP
$OUT[1] = TRUE
CHECK()
$OUT[1] = FALSE
CHECK()
$OUT[1] = FALSE
CHECK()
$OUT[1] = FALSE
CHECK()
ENDLOOP
END
DEF CHECK()
WAIT SEC STEP
IF(?) ;input replacing halt became true*
$OUT[1] = FALSE ; immediately stop $out and exit
EXIT ;but exit all loops??**
ENDIF
*Not sure how to trigger the IF with the play button (replacing the HALT command)
**And have forgotten what the command is for breaking out of all nested loops.
Would prefer if there was no delay whatsoever, but I guess I could just have 0.1 sec intervals for checking instead (any negatives to that approach?)
You could also use a WHILE loop and use that input as a condition. Inside the loop you can use your pulse as you want.
Which input? I am currently using Halt which requests the play button be pressed to continue..
WHILE loops only check at the beginning of the loop, if inside the WHILE loop there's only a PULSE and WAIT command, that's a really long period of time between checks...
If you need CONSTANT pulse all the time, you can try to put it in to the loop of sps.sub program.
Edit:
You have description how sps.sub works in chapter 12 in system integrator manual.
How fast a pulse rate?
$TIMER[1] = -500 ; preset timer
$TIMER_STOP[1] = FALSE ; let timer run
REPEAT
IF $TIMER_FLAG[1] THEN ; $TIMER[1] is above 0
$TIMER[1] = -500 ; 500ms delay
$OUT[1] = NOT $OUT[1] ; invert output
ENDIF
UNTIL $IN[1] ; input to end the pause
$OUT[1] = TRUE ; set tool output to fixed state before movingWell you could wire a resume button to external I/O en then you can check an input. I you don't want that you can check the variable manual in manuals section. if there is a variable linked to the start button on the pendant. If not, then i come back to my previous post about the sps.
KRL execution runs at mircoseconds per line of code, or less on the newer controllers. The limiting factor is the resolution of the $TIMER variable, which is 12ms. So your smallest time step would be 12ms True, 12ms False. 500ms is just a number I pulled out of thin air.
A HALT command can only be overridden by the Step-Go button in AUT mode, or by an external start signal in EXT mode. But using a HALT would stop this loop from executing, in which case your only option would be to put the pulsing loop into the SPS.
The better option would probably be to post an operator message that waits for a softkey, and change the loop so the exit condition is associated to that softkey.
