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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...

Manipulator Model:  Yaskawa Motoman GP180 Controller Model : YRC1000 Application:  Handling and Palletizing This morning I faced an annoying problem, which was related to robot movement through the programmed steps during the playback. For solving this problem, I tried some solutions and as a result, I am thinking that I solved this problem. Therefore, I decided to create a post for problem definition and solving of this problem.  Shortly explaining my problem, when robot goes from one point to the another point robot tool is turning 360 degree at around itself to reach same coordinate. It may causes major problems such as collide with something at the cell, destroying cables of sensors onto the tool. On the other hand, this type of movement had no sense to move like that. (Who wants extra paths and movements at the robot?).  To reach the solution, I tried three steps, which are listed below: Change the orientation degrees of the point data. (Sending away Rx, Ry and ...

    I would like mention about movement principle of robots and some important motion types. So let's start with the Movement Principle of industrial robots. Movement Principle      Industrial robots aim to go from one point to the specific position which can be named as " pose to pose movement ". It means clearly " move from the current position to the new position ". All story starts with this motion concept. Besides that, robots make some special tasks using industrial equipments(we can call them as tool in some states) such as material handling, palletizing/depalletizing, painting, arc welding/spot welding on the specified path. Robot programming includes some special robot movement commands and when moving on the path robot run special commands to control the environment such as PLC, sensors, actuators and valves. Path can be explained as " The continuous locus of positions(or points in three dimensional space) traversed by the tool center point and d...