Okan Is Talking

ABOUT THE ALBUM We invite you to turn your attention to space. Space is vast as we know. Here we have the opportunity to really think about what this vastness means to us as we listen. Let us imagine time and space in the grandest sense and go on a spectacular journey to hear our planet, our neighboring  spatial bodies, the two giant planets in our solar system, interstellar space, a galactic pulsar, and the merger of two black holes as evidenced by the first observed gravitation wave, an almost unbelievable ripple in space time that Einstein doubted we could ever capture. Space is a vacuum and utterly silent, with no capacity for the transmission of sound waves. In contrast, electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves can travel in the almost perfect vacuum of space, providing us with information on the astronomical objects within and beyond our solar system. In this album we primarily hear the ‘sounds’ of space through the conversion of electromagnetic waves and gravitational w...

    If you worked with industrial robots  before  or will work with them, you probably heard or will hear two magic words mostly which are " Home Position ".  This is some unwritten deal with human and machines to work in peace(don't fear from the robots if take them into  the home position at the starting). "Did you send the robot at home position after initializing the system(alright depends on the scenario)?" or "PLC step waits the robot at home signal for starting" are the sentences which used by the people who work with robots. So it is important to understand the concept of home position and home signal for the agreement for the outer devices such as other robots and PLCs. For an example, I would like to mention about how to define home position and home position signal at the Epson robots . I used Epson RC+ 7.0 software for this. In this way, I had made a quick introduction to this robot brand. What Is Home Position? The Home Position could be ...

     When programming a robot in manual mode or trying it into automatic mode in production, robot could collide with other robots, machine parts or anything else into the cell. In that case, you may not keep going robot because of the collision effect onto the robot axes. It is hard to continue with just resetting the error and moving robot directly. Robot shock sensors/algorithms/torque controls sense the collision and stops immediately for preventing robot and other stuffs from huge damage.  Figure 1: Illustration of Collision             Quick Information: I create a Reddit topic to understand " How industrial robots understand collision and stop immediately?  " Figure 2: Reddit Most Voted Answers       In this post, I would like to mention about how to change the level of the detection of each axes and/or making collision detection valid or invalid for maintaining the robot moveable after robot c...

     Last night I read an article about soft robotics at the IEEE Spectrum magazine . This article was publish  by Cecilia Laschi  at March, 2017 which name is "A robot octopus points the way to soft robotics". Then I found the related article from the internet.(You can access from this link ). The article was simply related with soft robotic project and outcomes of this project.  " As a professor at the BioRobotics Institute at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in Pisa, Italy, I lead a team investigating soft robotics. This relatively new field of research has the potential to upend our ideas about what robots are capable of and where they can be useful. I chose to build robots that mimic the form of the octopus for two reasons. First, because they’re well suited to demonstrate the many advantages that come when a machine can flex and squish as needed. Also, it’s an excellent engineering challenge: An octopus with eight wiggly arms, which must work together ...

Industry is growing day by day. This sentence may look very simple but it has many meaning. With Industry 4.0 and IoT, robotic technologies have been gaining more importance. Most production lines need more automation and robots for many reasons. These reasons may be the topic of an another post. Let's go back the subject of this post.  Many people asked me "What do you do in your job?" when we met for the first time. I always try to explain my job in its simplest form if this person don't know anything about industrial robots and programming. I prefer to say robot with "industrial". Because if I say just robots, people think about the robots like cinematographic way. For that I explained " What Is Robot? " in my one of old post. Sometimes high school students asked me the same questions for future career plans. In this way I feel responsible to tell my job fully to be aware of. I decided to gather all of my experiences about this description in on...

After a few questions about offline simulation platform of Yaskawa Motoman Robotics which is called MotoSimVRC, I decided to write a quick post to collect the answers. So I listed the questions below and tried to explain briefly.  How to get  MotoSimVRC? You can find the latest version(and older versions, too) of the  MotoSimVRC from this link . Important note: You have to register this site with your company e-mail only. After applying for being a member to website, you need to have at least two days for verification(it was like that when I have done). In addition to that, this membership has 2 years duration. After two years, your membership is expired. Fig : After Login After login you can access the download link from Download Area -> Application Software. Is this software licensed? Simply yes. This software is licensed by Yaskawa. But they offer a demo mode which can used only for 90 days and it is not intended for productional usage. All software packages ar...