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Hand-E: New Overmolded Fingers

Hi Pros,

Since the beginning of June 2019, all Hand-E adaptive gripper kits have been delivered with aluminum fingers fitted with nitrile rubber overmolding. These new fingers can be installed directly on Hand-E finger sliders, without finger holders.

The new fingers of the Hand-E adaptive gripper are overmolded with nitrile rubber.

Credit: Robotiq

These high friction fingers makes it possible to use the entire 50 mm stroke of the Hand-E. Finger holders will now be required only for grooved fingers or for custom designs. Please note that the previous model of rubber fingertips can still be ordered as spare parts for those using this model in production.
SKU is #HND-TIP-SLC-KIT.

For more details about the Hand-E, click here or contact Robotiq to get support that is tailored to your application.

Regards,

Catherine Bernier

Re: Around which axes are the rotation vector angles defined?

@Andre see attached. Does this help?

Insights: Updating the Communication Protocol; Replacing the Free Plan with a 1-Month Trial

Remote Access Update 1.2.X - Required to Download the New Remote Access File

MANDATORY CHANGE

The protocol used by remote access and by web browsers is being updated by the web browser community. In order to support the new version of the communication protocol for remote access and web browsing, the magic file needs to be replaced. If you have not updated the magic file, you will be notified to update it as soon as you insert your USB key.

STEPS REQUIRED

Either use a new USB key or completely delete the remote access directory (robot-remote-agent) from your USB key. There are two ways to fully delete the contents of your USB key:

Delete all files on your key, leave it plugged in, and empty your computer trash bin. This deletes hidden files left on your key.
Format your USB key.

Go to remote-access.robotiq.com and click on the Get started button
Select Download robot software and re-install the remote access application on your USB key
The new file directory “remote-access” must be located at the root of your USB key

You can then proceed as usual with Remote Access.

For Insights releases 1.27.13 and later

Starting with version 1.27.13, the free plan will be replaced with a 1-month trial of the Advanced Plan for new users. Robots without a subscription will have their status set to “Expired”. If robots using Insights 1.5.0 or earlier have their status set to “Expired”, you can do any of the following:

Upgrade to Advanced plan
Upgrade to URCap 1.5.0 or later
Uninstall the Insights URCap

The Insights server will reject connections from robots with the “Expired” status, and events will be buffered onto their disk, as if the internet connection were interrupted. Up to 30mb of Insights events can be stored locally on a robot. You will need to delete this data.

Re: how to add the integer value to the position of a robot to move it in particular direction ?

You either need to create a pose with the values that you want to add using either pose_add, base frame of reference, or pose_trans, first arguments frame of reference. The shape of a pose variable is p[x.y.z.rx.ry.rz]

So you could take a variable and add to the current tool position like this

var deltaX = 0.03 (meters)
var deltaY = 0.1 (meters)
var newPoint = pose_trans(get_actual_tcp_pose(),p[deltaX, deltaY, 0,0,0,0]) (this would add the deltaX and deltaY variables to the tools current X and Y axes, not the base coordinate, if you wanted the base coordinates then you use pose_add

Then you could move to the variable newPoint using moveJ, moveL or moveP

The rotation units in the pose are radians for rx, ry, rz

Re: How to zero a variable getting NaN value

The first return value in the list that is returned is the number of values returned, you can use this to check to see if there is anything returned.

if a[0]>0:
  b=a[1]
else
 b=0
end

Re: USB dongle not found (wrist camera)

This issue was due to a bug in the Wrist Camera URCap. This will be fixed in the URCap version 1.8.0