Simulation Components

Description

Simulation components are used to visually approximate the movement behavior of the robot before running the RAPID main and base code on the robot controller. To simulate the robot movement path all Actions from the Code Generation category can be plugged into the Path Generatorcomponent which also generates corresponding axis values for every path position. To visualize the robot geometry inside of Rhino the Forward Kinematics component can be used by feeding in any axis values.

Components

Forward Kinematics: Computes the position of the end-effector of a defined ABB robot based on a set of given axis values. It can be also used for visualizing the robot mesh inside of Rhino.

Inverse Kinematics: Computes the axis values for a defined ABB robot based on an Action: Target.

Path Generator: Generates and displays the movement path for a defined ABB robot based on a list of Actions. It can be also used for visually simulating and animating the robot movement inside of Rhino by using the Forward Kinematics component.