Setting Up Collision Zones

    How do you set up collision zones on Fanuc robots?


    At my prior job there were Sync routines that could be used to keep both robots moving in a controlled manner.


    I'm looking to have one robot in a 2-robot cell wait to move into a zone until signaled from the other robot. Unfortunately this cell doesn't have a PLC, all the I/O is handled by Robot 1.


    Thank you.

    The more robust method would be to use Basic Interference Check (Spacecheck). The robots could use discrete IO (1 or 2 total) between them. It is simple to setup and is always active regardless of mode (T1/Auto). If you can add the option, that would be best. Otherwise it sounds like some handshaking and syncing between the two.

    The robots do communicate, Robot 1 sends the tool ID to Robot 2. That’s handled with a group output.


    I’ll check with Fanuc on adding Spacecheck.

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