Posts by deltaplex15

Thanks for the quick responses guys!!!

I didn't even see the Stop tab when I went into safe i/o configurator and was just looking through the I/O they have listed there. Thanks to both you guys this was a huge help!!!

Are those safety rated? And I'm assuming those would then be discrete inputs instead of using ethernet correct? I've been digging through the IRC5 compact controller manual and the safemove manual trying to find any of this do you have a link to the pin out?

So I've only been working with robots of any kind for about a year now so still learning tons. My shop mostly deals with Fanuc so I am most familiar with that. However we have a customer that is requesting ABB.

My question is we are using a light curtain and want it to stop the robot if the operator breaks the curtain. In fanuc we would use DCS and use Safety I/O with SSI 2 for fence and then would be able to start the robot again once the curtain is clear and cycle has been resumed. I do not see anything in safe move that is similar to fence. We are using CIP safety over Ethernet. Any advice would be appreciated.

Awesome Thanks so much!!! I was for sure going down the wrong rabbit hole haha.

Alright everyone I am still trying to learn so be gentle. lol

I am working with a fanuc CR-7ia and a couple Keyence Sz area scanners. We are running the scanners through a AB Plc through the safety card to the Robot. We are looking to set it up so that when you approach the robot it will slow then when you enter the work envelope it will stop. I am not sure how to approach this I know I will be using DCS I/O (I do not have alot of experience using this). Any advice or help with where to start would be great. I have the DCS Manual but its not really making a ton of sense to me right now.

Thanks in advance for any help and sorry if I sound like a Noob lol. Gotta start somewhere right lol.

I figured out the problem but don't have a solution yet. I have the robot attached to a CAD file for the machine however it doesn't seem to be moving the base frame with the robot when I attach it. Every time I restart the robot I get this message

if I click yes it moves the robot to the original position and says it is still attached to the CAD file. The only way I can see to get it back to the CAD origin is to detach it then reattach it but then it doesn't seem to bring the base frame with it.

The bubble shows back up when I am not faulted I think it only shows the faulted zone. I have a pic of it not faulted inside the zone to show the upper arm and then a pic of it with the tool and the upper arm out of the zone and it not faulting

yes but even if I try to get the tool to go through any other side it goes through just fine no fault. Its only on the one wall that I can get it to fault out. And don't really understand why it faults in the middle of the zone.

Well I though it was fixed. If I jog to the front wall of the safe zone as soon as the tool sphere hits the wall it faults out as it should. however if I jog up so the upper arm hits the top of the safe zone it doesn't fault out. Also it will randomly fault out in the middle of the zone and say the tool geometry violated the zone but it is completely in the zone. seems the only spot that works as it somewhat should is the front wall and that only works with the tool if the arm goes through it it doesn't seem to care.

Im guessing Robotstuido must have been messing up because it all looked just like you said but was always causing a violation even when the the robot was completely inside the safe zone. I deleted the zone and closed and reopened robot studio and now it seems to be doing exactly as I expected. Thanks for the response I really apricate it

I'm gonna start off saying I've been working with robots for less then a year with no prior experience and unfortunately I am the only robot guy in my shop and we primarily work with FANUC so pardon my lack of knowledge.

I am trying to familiarize myself with some of the tools that ABB offers one of which is safe move. I am wanting to create a work envelop where if the robot leaves it stops like you would with DCS in FANUC. I believe I need to use safemove to do this. I have created a IRB1600 with the safemove basic option in robotstudio. I create a tool geometry and upper arm geometry then create a safe zone that encapsulates the robot. If I create a Tool position supervision within that zone no matter what I do it says the tool is in violation of the safe zone. I've tried moving the zone so the tool isn't in the zone and also with it in the zone and get the same violation. If I add a contact application tolerance instead I cannot get it to violate the safe zone. I'm having a hard time understanding this I have flipped through the safe move manual and it doesn't seem to help much. Am I barking up the wrong tree or am I missing something. I appreciate any help.

That was it!! Thanks for the help!!

Hey everybody

I am trying to figure out if there is any way I can record or log any time a user frame has been updated or a PR has been updated. Even if it just loads a count into a register (I would prefer a date and time of the update but I'm not even sure if this is possible lol).

So I have a rookie question here. I am trying to play around in roboguide to learn more. The issue I'm having is when I create a new robot and go to setup my I/O when I assign rack 89 slot 1 start 1 it still says Device Name Unknown. When I set up my UOP it does show EthernetIP as the device name with the same rack and slot. I added the EthernetIP options for safety, adapter, and scanner (r 713 r784 r785) I am assuming I am missing a option or something.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Yes right now we are going to do some testing with it on roboguide but we are using a back up from a real robot that does have ethernetIP option and is connected to a AB PLC

Quote from HawkME

If you have the EthernetIP option on the robot you can just read the error codes with a MSG instruction.

I am going to apologies first off for any basic questions lol I am pretty new to the robotics world and know even less about PLC's. We are looking to do something similar to what was described above. We are looking to send any fault information we can to the plc. We are having a issue with a robot but it is very random and we cannot seem to reproduce it. We were hoping to come up with something where we can store the errors on the plc and see what actually happened. What parameters would we we have to set up on the AB PLC to use this MSG instruction do get the fault to the PLC?

Gotcha that's what I'm missing I didn't realize IRPickPro wouldn't do vision. I will give it a try in HandilingPro. Thanks!!!

Hey everybody

I am somewhat new to robotics and am trying to learn as much as possible. I am currently trying to learn as much about IRpicktool as I can. We are looking to do line tracking and from my research this is how you do it. We are wanting to incorporate vision. I have set up a 2d vision process before however I have not done this in IRpickpro in roboguide. When I create the work cell it defaults with a sensor and not a vision cam. I can add a vision cam if I select the roboguide tab at the bottom and I can setup a vision process however when I go back to the IRPicktool tab I cannot add the cam to the conveyor infeed section I can only add additional sensors. Sorry if this is a super basic question I have no exposure to IRPicktool so far so I'm trying to figure out as much as possible.

Thanks in advance!!

Awesome Thanks I really appreciate the help!!!

So I do have that file in my rginstall folder. Shouldn't this have installed when I installed roboguide or is that something I have to do independently of the rg install? If so how do I do that I have extracted that folder to folder on my desktop however I do not see any setup file or anything like that.