Adding positions to a que

    Hi All,

    A while back on a different robot type, I did a program where there were two tasks executing simultaneously.

    The first task opened a text file as parsed some data and extracted x, y and z coordinates and turned them into move commands and added them to a 'work que'.

    The other task then looked at the work que and moved to the positions in a FIFO fashion.

    Does anyone know if this might be possible on an ABB robot. I will do it in robot studio first so robot type/RobotWare shouldn't be an issue.

    Also open to suggestions on better ways to do this.

    Any help is much appreciated.

    Thanks in advance.

    I have done variants of what you are describing many times. It all depends on what functionality you want. If its just a series of MoveL you could just load the x,y,z data into a pos array and use that for movements later. If you want orientations you could use a Pose array or robrarget array to save the data. Then just make what ever instructions required to move along the data, or even a for loop could be used.

    Can you share an example of the data you need to read, are you in control of how the file is designed that you read from?

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