
Welcome to your very own collaborative robot programming course! We'll take a look at why we need cobots, what are their advantages and some of the things we'll learn in this course.
In this section we take a look at the hardware from our cobot. How simple is it? How is it powered? All here.
We're going to go over the whole Polyscope interface and how to navigate the UI to program and take care of our collaborative robot. We're also going to learn how to install our cobot simulator in our computer.
We're going to learn how to set up our tool and the payload on the cobot's tool flange.
How does the cobot know where to go? How do we plan movements? How to program simple trajectories? It's all here.
Program basic robot commands with waypoints and waits. Learn to manage digital and analogue outputs, use pop ups and halts, and organize code with folders and comments for collaborative tasks.
Learn to create variable, relative waypoints that adapt to changing targets and define coordinates in the base frame using p(x,y,z,rx,ry,rz) for grasping tasks.
Master the loop command to repeat movements between waypoints for a set number of iterations, including timing a digital output cleaner on for 3 seconds between cycles.
Here we learn how to create a coordinate position with variables.
Learn how events run in parallel to the main program to control a timer, starting and stopping a stopwatch with digital outputs while keeping one active event at a time.
Learn to use a switch case to control the Cobalt robot, selecting from four cases to move to waypoints, via a main selector that directs pick and place tasks.
In this section we'll learn about safety planes and how to make our application more secure.
In this course we will first understand what is a cobot, what differentiates them from usual industrial robots and then take a deep dive into the programming of the most popular cobot in the industry today.
We hope you enjoy this course and look forward to our upcoming courses.
So, what is a collaborative robot?
In short, Cobots are the future of automation. Unlike traditional robotics, these robots were invented with human interaction in mind. Traditional industrial robots are usually guarded by big fences to keep people away. This is understandable given that they usually handle heavy objects, and they’re very big themselves. Thanks to these robots the automation of large industries took off, and accelerated the production time for cars, ships, phones, and most products.
These robots handle machine tending, part manipulation, palletizing and some other applications like welding, sanding and painting.
So why do we need collaborative robots? Industrial robots seem to handle most tasks pretty well.
We’d like to sum it up to three major reasons:
Ergonomics, space and programming.
Sometimes new products are introduced in the manufacturing process, as changes are made, sometimes to improve an already existing product or simply to make a new one every year, cobots that can be programmed easily are the best option to adapt to changes.
NO COBOT REQUIRED