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Why are my gripper fingers slowing down? |
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So I have made a program that utilizes the Robotiq 2-Finger Grippers. At some point during my program, the gripper fingers will only open and close very slowly and will do that forever until I restart the program. It will still run, but it runs slower. What could be causing this reduction in speed and how to I fix it?
Thanks,
Matt
Thanks,
Matt
Was this ever resolved?
P.S. Using with UR5 on latest firmware. Solid blue indicator light on gripper.
I'm very interested in this, please let me know as soon as this is available. Occasionally the camera has some very long delays as well, could the communication issue also cause that?
Just for testing, I tried replacing the cable on the camera and that didn't seem to help. I am also running a fair amount of threads with one of them containing quite a few modbus reads and writes. I don't know if that would affect the communication to the robotiq products as well.
I had Robotiq send me a spacer adapter that separated the communication between the Camera and the Gripper. Now there are two separate cords, one for the camera and one for the gripper.
I think the power to the gripper and the communication with the camera interfere with each other. Separating them with this spacer adapter improved camera speed and gripper speed and it also seemed to remove the little bugs I was having with the grippers. I would urge you to contact Robotiq to request this adapter. Unfortunately, I didn't keep any of the packaging so I do not know what the part number was.
If you get this adapter you WILL have to update the TCP, just extending it further from the end of the arm by the thickness of the adapter. That and a little bit of IO work and I was up and running in a couple hours.
Let me know if you have any other questions,
Matt
I was wondering if you had a status update on the software fix for the gripper / camera issue?
We have been working a lot on this issue with our suppliers and I just want to make sure you have all the same components that work flawlessly in house in heavy testing since we made the changes.
Thanks in advance
Dany Nolet
Product Owner
1-888-ROBOTIQ (762-6847) ext. 233
[email protected]
Here is what I'm running:
URCap version 1.2.3
Server version 1.2.1-r01, 1.2.1)
Firmware version CQ0-xxxx-beta0 'xxxx' is unreadable
Unfortunately the picture I took of the dashboard has a light bloom on the firmware version but I believe it was the latest that had the light fix (LED light stayed on after first pic).
-Steve
-Steve