Application program for handling robots

The selection of kinematics architecture according to the load to manipulate is one of the key factors to completely satisfy the technical and economic needs of the customer; very often though this selection is influenced by the need to use the “usual” programming interface which is nearly always univocally associated to a sole type of kinematics.

As this situation can cause economic wastes or functioning problems, Tex Computer has decided to give manipulator constructors and system integrators a basic program for its PAC systems of the Power family called SimpleMover.

This program allows you to use the same programming interface to move loads supported by any of the following 3 axis kinematics chains:

Cartesian

Scara

Rotating Delta

Linear Delta

The application has some configuration pages, protected by password, with which the robot installer defines both kinematic geometrics in use and dynamic performances.

In the page for manual movements it’s possible to move axis and manually activate the device to hold/release the load.

To create a working program, normally formed by a sequence of movement commands “point to point” intercalated by actions and/or conditionings of the executive flow, there’s a specific editor where pressing a touch key, it’s possible to display the list of all the available commands.

Each command has a page of parameters specific to its function; till the parameterization page of a command is active it’s possible to move manually the axis to self learn cartesian coordinates relative to editing point.

The basic program can be enlarged and adapted to the different needs, also adding possible I/O and extra axis.