Hello everyone.
I’m having an issue with an abb irc5 robot, when running my program in teach using either the step or the playback buttons the robot moves about 3 inches or so then stops. I get a couple messages that show up in the event log relating to robot program stopped and path regained and such. Hitting the playback or step will then move the robot another 3 inches to my programed point and stop again.
Never experienced this on an abb robot before and am at a loss as to what would cause it.
This is a little hard to tell with this information. A backup would be required to know what is going on.
My first guess is there is background code running on the robot that looks for a robot running bit and sends a stop command if certain conditions aren’t met. This would be a stop bit would be send moments after being sent a start bit. This might also be caused by a trap routine, this is like an interrupt in most other languages.
To see if you have a background task, open it in robot studio, look under configurations, then look at tasks. If there is more than one, that might point to a background task, not guaranteed though.
If you see routines in the program that say trap, or Connect, that there is probably trap routines. They could be using both.
A backup would be the only way to tell.
Good luck.