This may sound like a silly question, but bear with me please! I have worked with many industrial robots, and the x axis is always left to right, y is front to back, and z is up and down. There is one robot however, that the x and y axis are reversed (scorbot). This is all looking straight at the robot from the front.
I need someone to confirm for me the axis of motion for the AL5D. As I have it configured, locking the x,y or z axis does not work, so that I may deduce which axis is which.
I imagine that once I get it configured correctly, this will work itself out, but until then, in short, I need to know which way is x, which way is y, and which way is z!
James said the axis lock isn’t working for him either. I didn’t know there was a problem with it. I will let Laurent know. Currently Laurent is moving to a new town. He told me he would be off line for up to 2 weeks starting on the 16th. We can get it fixed soon. Hold tight.
In industry, worldwide, Z is always height from the work surface. As I teach a CIM course to many students across the country, is there any way to make this robot mimic industry?
The curriculum I use now utilizes a robot that uses the following coordinate system:
X= for and aft
Y= side to side
Z= up and down
In other terms, can the Z axis be changed to reflect all other arms?
The axis of the hexapod are similarly “mangled” to what we are accustomed to thinking in CNC. Although for just operating an arm or robot, it probably doesn’t matter.
I’m guessing you wish to use the arm in a teaching effort? Do the students view a screen display? RIOS perhaps? The BASIC code running the arm could of course be edited to make the axis labels agree with your CNC environment, but the RIOS (if you use it) screen might be a different matter.
I’d be interested in knowing where the alternate axis conventions originated. Different industry? Different country??
Perhaps the arm and hexapod axis conventions were modeled after particular commercial products or practices?
Not sure changes to the RIOS software will help us all. I’d like to see the master PMP files of PowerPod updated to correct (?) the axis conventions (unless there is a specific reason such as prior work for selecting them).
I’m debating whether to just change them for my self in my code, but then there wouldn’t be a common reference to the general code being run by members of this list.
Looks great, and I like the buttons with the presets for CNC and ISO. I am teaching in Dayton at the moment, and shared this with other teachers from around the midwest, and they all think it’s a great idea.
On another topic, will 1.06 also have the defaults for the AL5 series arms in the arm config? Is there a guess as to when 1.06 will be out?
We are doing some really cool things with interfacing with fishertek…I’ll be sure to post it when I get some documentation.
I don’t think that was on his list of things to look at. So no changes there till next update. Laurent is on vacation for two weeks. Nothing can be done immediately.
