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matthewd92

Re: IO testbox for cobot

Check this out. https://www.universal-robots.com/plus/urplus-components/plug-ins-interfaces/io-setup-box/

matthewd92

Re: UR10e not booting

We’ve had similar boot issues on several of our UR10e robots. Our solution with help from UR was to build a new SD card. If you go to downloads and download Robot Software Image you can get a full image of the robot. You will need to follow the instructions they give you for burning a new SD card using Rufus. You only need…

matthewd92

Re: Get a float or integer with MODBUS?

With EthernetIP/Profinet you would store the value directly in the register with the PLC then the robot would use one of the read methods such as read_float_register(n) (name may be slightly different) to read the value. With modbus you would have to convert the number to an integer and then convert it back on the robot.…

matthewd92

Re: Question regarding functions and stuffs

Basically it keeps your thread in sync with the robot cycles Say I have a thread that uses 1 millisecond of physical time performing calculations. Sync would then “sleep” for 1 millisecond to have the thread consume the 2 milliseconds of clock time each cycle lasts (assuming e-series, CB3 is 8ms clock cycle) . Make sense?

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