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Re: The power port of the 3F gripper seems to have serial pins, but do they work?

When you buy the 3F you can choose the communication protocol.

If you have the Modbus TCP version for example, you can control the gripper via ethernet thought the communication cable provided with the gripper using Modbus TCP protocol.

It is also possible to control the gripper using the RS485 wires of the power cable and communicate using modbus RTU.

For trouble shooting it is possible to use the USB port of the gripper to connect the gripper on the USB port of your PC and control is with robotiq user interface software.

Re: 2F gripper positional data Fanuc CRX series

bcastets said:

There is a check box wait until complete. Therefore you are sure the gripper is open or closed after such a gripper command.

I have that checked. The position data was needed just to set up an output to give a visual indication on the HMI of "gripper open" or "gripper closed" and not out of a concern that the robot would move before it was in the correct position.

bcastets said:

You could save the gripper status in a variable that you update after each gripper command

This is exactly what I ended up doing.

Thank you for the help and the prompt responses.

How can I control the robotiq_85 gripper in the ROS-noetic ?

I tried to install it according to http://wiki.ros.org/robotiq, but faild when I run

rosdep install robotiq_modbus_tcp

Version:

Ubuntu20.04 noetic

Connection method:

Robotiq_85gripper plug directly into the flange interface at the end of the UR5e, PC and UR control box are connected by network cable

Re: How can I control the robotiq_85 gripper in the ROS-noetic ?

Did you ever figure this out? Wondering why no one from Robotiq has responded.

Re: How to control Robotiq product through port 30002 on universal robot.

You could also generate your own script file if needed, for example you would like to use a new function added to a future release of the URCap. You could create a simple .urp program that contains only the script function you want to execute and saved it to a flash drive. You’ll then find a .urp version of your program, a .txt version, and a .script version. You can then use the .script version of that program and sent it to the robot controller.

Re: How to control Robotiq product through port 30002 on universal robot.

Hello @FarahKamal
Yes, unfortunately the whole file has to be sent.
The reason is that even if the URCap is installed, these functions are unknown to the robot as they are loaded at the beginning of every program. So you need to send the whole file so the robot know what to do with theses commands. Otherwise it would receives commands but have no instruction on how to use them

Best regards

Re: Can we define waypoints of Path Generator node programmatically without using teach pendant?

Unfortunatelly there is no possibility to set waypoint of multipoint path via script. I will forward you demand to our development teach to drive next developments.

Re: Screwdriver and hand-e, dual solution

I received information from support. we need to get a CB-Series coupling because we need to connect the Screwdriver and Robotiq gripper directly to the controller.

Re: how to communicate ur10 cb series with siemens s7-1200 plc using ( modbus tcp or profinet )

hi sir @bcastets and @matthewd92

now i am using profinet protocol to communicate with ur and siemens , and i send a int , float , bit values from siemens PLC to UR robot working correctly ( read_input_boolean_register)but i send bit , float, int from robot to PLC , its not working (write_input_boolean_register) kindly send proper solution for thia

Re: Integrating Robotiq 2F-85 and FT 300 with Kuka iiwa 7?

You can only use one RS485 to USB converter per product.
You cannot connect 2 grippers on one converter or 1 gripper and a ft300 on the same converter.