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Old 11-07-2012
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Default Robot Unload Offset

Good Morning,

I have read through a lot of robot forum threads and unfortunately have not found the right one to answer my question. Please point me in that direction if you know of an existing one.

Attached is my model where I am attempting to load flowitems into a container object with a robot. I am using offset code on the entry trigger of the combiner to create an X spacing between flowitems as they are loaded. On the robot I am using motion paths. What I'd like is to have the robot unload at the proper X offset without having to create a motion path for every iteration of it and call based on content. Hoping for a better approach. Please advise.

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Old 11-08-2012
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Unfortunately the combiner is not aware of the locations being set OnReceive of a container item or OnEntry as you have done here, so this info is not passed as a place offset in the task sequence as it is executed later.

You have to create a path for every position, but using Next Path you can avoid any code based on content. See the bottom of the Help/Flexsim Object Library/Robot page for information on Next Path. I have attached an example. Note that I specify a path for the load task, but not the unload task for the boxes.

Creating a path for every position sounds like a lot of work, but you only need an unload path for each position and if you use the PathPlanner along with Match Highlighted while you Step through the model, then you can be done in a minute.


fyi - I just noticed the Path Cycle Time field is not linked correctly in v6, you will have to use positive values in the Move Time column instead.
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Each time you relaunch Flexsim, execute the following in a Script window to fix the Path Cycle Time link in the Robot gui
sets(node("VIEW:/pages/unique/Robot/PathPlanner/Edit PathCycleTime>objectfocus"), "../..>objectfocus+/1")
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Last edited by Kris Geisberger; 11-08-2012 at 09:59 AM. Reason: added temp bug fix
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