Robot Reference Interface and Force Control

Hello.

I’ve got your files, but I cannot load it. I think you have to create a Pack&Go. But I’d a look at your files, and the settings.xml is faulty: you have added a client named “pippo” but your folder name is “TestDevice”. Both of them and of course the sensor name in the RAPID code must be the same.

Please try to change pippo to TestDevice. If it isn’t working then, please create a Pack&Go and send it to me.

Regards

I’m very sorry, I sent you the wrong file. Also with the correct name, i.ie. TestDevice, the result doesn’t change. I tried to send you a Pack&Go, but the service offerd by the forum allows just few kind of files and, unfortunately, *.rspag is not included.

you should give me a e-mail address…

Maybe you could just include the rspag file into a zip?

webwiz/4195/RRI.zip

Of course, here you are!

Thanks. I’ve loaded the station. First of all, i get the following error: “Communication failure on I/O bus”. I think this shouldn’t be the problem, but is not ok anyhow. Then is started the program, but I did’t get any error. Also, after deleting the GSI folder I get the mentioned error “Failed to access the config files”.

I’m using RobotWare 5.13.02_2039. Maybe it’s a problem with your RobotWare? Have you tryed to create a new station from the Pack&Go you just sent to me?

Dear Matthias, it is with great pleasure that I announce that RRI works!!!

Unpacking the Pack&Go, as you hinted, turned out to be the solution of this mysterious problem… I can’t believe it!

As far as “Communication failure on I/O bus” is concerned, it’s just due to the fact that I added “EtherNetIP port” option. It’s not needed anyway.

Thank you very much again for your fundamental help

kind regards
alessandro

I think, the station you were using was not ok, even though you have added the RRI option. Using the Pack&Go, a new station with your previous options was created. So maybe creating a new station will also work.

Hi everybody,
my challenge in connecting IRC5 with an external PC via RRI has found another hitch…

My UDP server, written in MATLAB, recieves data from IRC5. The message is hereunder reported

6640Hi MATLAB, nice to hear you!

Once received the string, the server arranges the answer and send it ro the IRC5

6640Hi robot, nice to hear you!

But none is received…

I don’t know if the problem is the string’s format, or the communication ports or something else

I attach a zip file with both the pack&go and the UDP server code. Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions? If you are not a Matlab user, could you just test the robot application with your server?

thanks for the help

regards

Alessandro

webwiz/4195/IRC5_Matlab.zip

Hi Alessandro,

I’m quite late, I know… nevertheless:
Do you still need help with the RRI?

I ran into the exact same issue - my PC is receiving the robot message, it then replies, but the robot controller doesn’t show any updates in the PERS variables at all…

any hints would be highly appreciated!

Also, after 20 messages (MaxLost is 20), the robot controller stops working with an Interface Communication error

Could anyone please give me some suggestions; Now I have successfully established a Robot position control based on applied force. That means if I apply force along the x axis, then the robot will move in x direction. But I have got another problem that is the lagging time of the robot processing and executing; applied forces are captured in every 10 ms but when the robot moves in each step, it takes around 300-400 ms (too slow as expected).

Then If I want to move the robot in very tiny time period (let say 10 ms) how can I update the robot ?
(Any ypdrade that can make it possible ?)

Thanks for your support.

Best regards,
Paramin