Learn Virtual Commissioning with ABB Robot studio

Define an industrial robot as a programmable, multifunctional manipulator fixed at end with limited workspace, contrasting with mobile robots that move freely and face localization, mapping, and obstacle navigation challenges.

Discover industrial robot applications, including welding with a welding torch, pick-and-place and painting, plus palletizing, emphasizing high production rates, quality, and scalable automation.

Explore the types of industrial robots, from serial and parallel manipulators like delta robots to Cartesian, cylindrical, polar, Scara, and articulated robots.

Explore ABB Robot Studio, a proprietary offline programming tool that models industrial robot workcells through simulation, enabling virtual commissioning, rapid programming, process optimization, and safety-aware path and cycle-time tuning.

Install ABB Robot Studio by downloading the setup, completing the admin form, and following the installation wizard to install the full software, with a 30-day trial.

Unlock a 30-day trial license for ABB Robot Studio using the activation wizard. Request a standalone license for Robot Studio Premium and Power Packs, restart the software, and verify license.

Create an empty station in ABB Robot Studio and learn how the station defines the robot work cell with robots, effectors, programs, and components. Explore the three setup options.

Import a robot in ABB Robot Studio using the ABB library, select by specification, and place the IRB 1520 arc welding robot in the workstation.

Explore the ABB robot studio workspace, import robots and end effectors, and design a virtual work cell with layouts, targets, and paths; learn freehand controls to move, rotate, and jog.

Learn to select industrial robots by evaluating four parameters: payload, reach, speed, and supplementary load, with examples like spot welding and pick-and-place operations.

Explore how the ABB robot controller acts as the robot's brain. It calculates joint angles and enables programming and motion via forward and inverse kinematics.

Import a virtual controller in ABB Robot Studio by selecting from layout, creating a controller, or using an existing one, then check controller status with IRP 1520 ID robot.

Understand how the controller status indicates the robot's connectivity and standby state. Red means not connected, yellow means standby, green means connected, reflecting the controller as the robot's brain.

Import and attach an end effector to a robot in ABB Robot Studio by importing the library, selecting My Tool, and updating its position near the robot TCP.

Explore the robot work envelope, defined by the 2d outline and 3d volume, showing reachable areas and unreachable areas to place objects operated by the robot within the envelope.

Learn robot jogging, the manual control of a robot via a teach pendant to teach targets. Explore three modes—access, linear, and reorient—and end effector guidance.

Define robot frames and use the right hand rule to determine movement directions. Explain world, base, tool, and work object coordinate systems and their roles in positioning targets.

Build a simple industrial robot work cell in ABB Robot Studio by importing an IRB 1520 ID robot, attaching a smart gripper, and integrating conveyors, a cnc machine, and fencing.

Learn to jog an ABB robot by joint and mechanism jog modes, observe joint limits, and switch to jog linear and reorient using the tool center point.

Explore how targets define three-dimensional positions, orientation, zone, speed, tool data, and how paths connect targets with motion instructions in Robot Studio.

Learn to create targets by coordinates in ABB robot studio, specifying position (x, y, z) and orientation, and place targets on the xy plane to build paths.

Learn the fundamental methodology of teaching targets and building a robot path, using milestones and the tool center point to guide motion, with four targets spaced 100 mm apart.

Create a path by selecting targets and adding a new path, then close it to form a loop, and set the zone radius for smooth travel.

Explore robot axis configuration in ABB Robot Studio, including how four-digit joint configurations encode angles, anticlockwise and clockwise quadrants, and selecting configurations that respect joint limits.

Create targets by position and orientation in ABB robot studio, then select optimal robot access configurations to reach each target without strain using jump to target and teach target.

Explore robot programming and rapid programming language concepts, including lead-through, online, offline, and true offline methods, with ABB Robot Studio for simulation.

Explore four rapid motion commands—move j for joint interpolation, move l for linear paths, move c for circular paths, and move abs j for joint angles—along with a welding example.

Explore zone data and zone error in ABB robot studio, showing how zone values like fine and z10 shape how the tcp reaches a target, often along a curved path.

Learn to create and teach robot targets and paths in ABB Robot Studio. Explore home positioning, jog and linear or joint motions, and auto path for complex shapes.

Learn material handling operations from manual to automatic robot-based palletizing, including pick-and-place on conveyors, safety in hazardous environments, and sensor-driven sorting for high-throughput production.

Learn the pick and place logic in virtual commissioning with ABB Robot Studio, using sensors, vision, gripper, and a set and reset latch for reliable automation.

Learn to simulate a pick-and-place material handling cell in ABB Robot Studio. Build smart components with a vacuum gripper and line sensor, using attach/detach logic and controller signals.

Explore machine tending with robots in a collaborative setup, including loading/unloading CNC machines, handling parts with end effectors, and improving safety and productivity.

Learn machine tending with a robot using vacuum cup and fingers. The robot moves parts from the pick table to the CNC and places them on the place table.

Create a machine tending robot cell in robot studio using an IRB 600 robot and smart gripper, applying pick-and-place with line sensors, not gates, and SR latch.

Coordinate cnc and robot motion in ABB robot studio by teaching targets and paths, using line sensors on the vacuum gripper, and validating with collision sets in simulation.

Learn to design machine tending logic in ABB Robot Studio by configuring tool data, teaching targets, building paths, and using smart components to open and close a CNC door.

Learn to simulate a machine tending operation in ABB Robot Studio by teaching targets, creating CNC pick-and-place paths, and synchronizing the robot with the CNC workflow.

The course conclusion reviews the fundamentals of industrial robots, simulation with ABB robot studio, and virtual commissioning to design pick-and-place workcells and assess ROI.