A while back I posted about this, but I never continued the thread due to business at school and graduating.
I was a part of a senior design team tasked with using a robot that was made in a joint project between yaskawa motoman and denso japan in the early 2000s. There was an aggressive split between these companies and neither company takes responsibility for the robot so most files for it were lost to the past. I was able to retrieve some over time as I found someone at motoman who found the original folder for the robot. The model number is ERCJ-HME4BA-BN and it has a controller that uses wincaps 2. We were able to get it setup, connected, and go all the way through calset and were prepared to program it, however we ran into the robot stop issue.
From what we understood we needed to have some sort of security measure attached to the robot so that it knows it's safe to operate. We ordered a connector so that we could bridge the pins that tell the controller that security is hooked up. We proved that the connector worked because the auto turned on when we bridged the pins for the auto, however, we never got power going through the pins for the robot stop and when we bridged the power from the auto it never triggered the robot stop either.
The only other information I gained overtime was that the robot is one that is in "special" configuration. I have robot manuals I can attach if needed to show which one it is. I just need advice on what we could possibly due to get the robot stop to be disabled so we can get the motors moving. We already tried going through the hardware and we never saw anything that looked damaged. If needed I can get photos and attach those as well.
Thank you for anyone that can give advice.
