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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...

    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...

     What Is Axes?  If we look at the meaning of the "axis" from the dictionary we can find the meaning of " an imaginary line through the center of an object, around which the object turns " . In the other hand, in robotic terminology we can explain the the axis; " A direction used to specify the robot motion in a lienar or rotary mode(ISO 8373) ".     An axis in robotic represents basically the "degree of freedom"( DOF ). In the industry there are many kind of industrial robots that have different axes configurations (degree of freedom) in the ranges through two axes to fifteen axes robots. It depends on the type of the application.  Fig : Cartesian Robots: Two Or Three Sliding Axes Fig : SDA Series 15 Axes Robot[ For Detail ]      For example; we have six axes robot, it means that this robot can move in six different ways could be moved. This means a robot can move in X, y and z planes as well as position itself using roll, pitch...