Since nothing else works how about giving each robot task its own elevator even if there is just one? Running out of ideas.
2 robots, 2 external axes
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May 27, 2019 at 2:07 PM -
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Is it worth trying with ros industrial instead?
We are pretty much trying to set something similar than this (our track is vertical and moves the robots). How is the coordination done in robotstudio? It worked in 2015
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We are talking to abb support, if we come up with a good solution i post it
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We are talking to abb support, if we come up with a good solution i post itGood !
As for the video, I don't know for sure but it looks like the robots are stationary and that the positioner is on a track (a4004 track as well and not a 2005 as the title implies).
In your case There's many ways of doing it and I'm sure ABB will help you find the best one.
I really haven't had any chance to play around with RobotStudio to test things out as it takes quite some time to do so.Having some time to think about it though I think your best bet (unless I'm missing something) from an ease of programming standpoint is to put the "track" or elevator on a dual-resolver motor. Set up each robot as it's own task with it's own track (one of which being the "dummy" with the extra resolver and then the positioner as the 3rd task. I apologize if I'm repeating myself.
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I know the gentleman that programmed the robots in the video and He is currently the application manager for ABB.
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Nice forum update...
So word is now that is not a bug: its a hidden/ undocumented robot studio feature so secret even support didnt know.
If you pay for it separately only apparently. Well...
We are thinking to pretend we have a 2 axis positioner in simulation only and still use 1 track in real system.
Anybody can think of what might go wrong with that workaround?
Our other options are SiemensNX or ros industrial but no idea if they have proper external axes support?
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what is hidden / undocumented?
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I guess its additional .cfg files in the end.
But its apparently not expected to work (driving the base frame of 2 robots with the same axis) in first place.
We dont have an actual quote yet, so not quite sure what we are paying for and how much.
A bit surprising the whole thing
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We ended up trying to fake a 2 axis positioner in simulation. No support for anything else as far as anyone can tell
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