Hello everyone, friends. There is an extension pipe after the flange on one of my transport robots, and a Gripper is connected to that pipe. Robot and Gripper are used for picking and dropping parts from the table. The dimensions of the gripper are as seen in the picture. Its weight is 2kg. . I want to create a tool and apply TCP to it. What do you think the most appropriate data should be?
It looks like that comes straight out from the faceplate. If so, the distance from the end of the faceplate to the center of the gripper should work well.
What values should I write to the Tooldata data?
It looks like you are using RobotStudio. If so, this is fairly easy. Go to the Home tab - Other (drop down) and create tool data. This is where you would input the data that you're looking for. Based on the picture, it looks like it's straight off the flange, so you would be putting a + value on the Z (as Z comes straight off the flange). You should also put the weight into the system in kg (i.e. 2 for 2kg). Depending on the year and model, I would also suggest running the Load ID with the tool and another with tool and load (i.e. part). This would help with using collision detection and can be fine tuned to eliminate bad crash problems. I hope this helps!
