Animating robot

    Hello everybody! I'm a newbie to robots so I apologize for the possibly weird questions. I work in scenic equipment company, our job is making shows. We just got Kawasaki BX200L-E and it's all good but it has really jerky movements. I find out there is a lot of software where you can like draw trajectory, for example Mimic for Maya or Autodesk Powermill. But all this soft never support specifically my robot. So maybe you can give me any advice, I will be really grateful, thanks a lot!

  • panic mode July 3, 2023 at 7:04 AM

    Approved the thread.

    Welcome to the forum............... :beerchug:

    What advice are you looking for as your post covers several areas and set out a guessing game:

    - Newbie to robots (suggest a training course and learn how to program).

    - Jerky movements (has the robot been setup correctly for the application).

    - What you are trying to achieve exactly (no mention of what it is you are doing with the robot).

    From the above, my advice would be to contact your local Kawasaki distributor.

    I'm sorry.

    I want to use this robot for all sorts of concerts and presentations. For example, we already used it as a screen holder, it moved the screen and it made a cool show, but it is quite difficult to make really beautiful and complex movements, and in this field it is important to do everything in a short time.

    While searching for some options, I came across the Mimic plugin for Maya. It's used for cinematography, and the guys use it to make truly mesmerizing moves. The problem is that this plugin doesn't support my robot and even though it's possible to add this rig, there's quite a big challenge to implement support for the kawasaki postprocessor. So I figured maybe there's some more obvious way to do this kind of thing.

    As for contacting a distributor, I live in Kazakhstan and we don't have a distributor, the robot was bought and brought from abroad.

    Anyway thanks for the correction, I appreciate it. :smiling_face:

    Quote from Ilim Aisayev

    I want to use this robot for all sorts of concerts and presentations. For example, we already used it as a screen holder, it moved the screen and it made a cool show, but it is quite difficult to make really beautiful and complex movements, and in this field it is important to do everything in a short time.

    Yes, that's a given from your first post, but repeating yourself just using different words doesn't really open the door to anything practical here.

    So what is wrong with how you used it previously then if it made a 'cool show'?

    What steps did you take to produce the above 'cool show'

    How was it configured and programmed?

    Where is your current code?

    Post processing is just a term - what is the purpose of you using a post processor over a program?

    Quote from Ilim Aisayev

    As for contacting a distributor, I live in Kazakhstan and we don't have a distributor, the robot was bought and brought from abroad.

    Have you even tried to reach out to Kawasaki regarding this?

    I am pretty sure all you ask is possible:

    dancing Kawasaki robot - Google Search

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