Robots and Servos
All Robots, Allen Bradley, Intelligent Actuator, Quick Silver, etc...
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IAI Pick and Place Example
By Chris Elston
These programs are examples of a pick and place servo slide by IAI.
1158 downloads
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IAI Plug Loader Example
By Chris Elston
This program was a pick and place plug loader servo program that picked up plugs from a feeder bowl inline with vaccum and place the plugs into an automotive part.
542 downloads
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IAI X Y Sealant Servo Example
By Chris Elston
This example show how to use an IAI X Y servo to seal a part using rounded corner moves.
689 downloads
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IAI Scara Robots
By Chris Elston
This program example is IAI Scara robots. There are three robot programs in here. Two robot programs are almost the same. The third robot has 8 grippers and picked up a part riveted the part and placed the parts on a vibratory inline.
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SMAC Servo Program
By Chris Elston
Whoa! You guys want to see some cryptic programming code you gotta check this out. This servo program includes a small homing routine then upon PLC "GO" signal servo "soft landed" on the part using feedback from current in ser
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Motion Control Handbook
By Chris Elston
PDF Booklet written by Dr. Stephen J. O'Neil that explains some of the design concepts of using motion control and how motion control really works. The PDF booklet is about 78 pages long. Enjoy!
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Quick Silver Servo Motor Example
By Chris Elston
This is a sample Quick Silver servo program. Its function was to turn five times 360 degrees waiting on feedback from a torque analog device. If the torque measurement was greater than 0.5 in-oz then the servo was instructed to return in the opposite di
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IAI New IX Scara Pick and Place
By Chris Elston
This is a sample program from one of the new IX Scara robots from IAI. This program picked parts from three locations and loaded parts in a pattern. There are 10 Multi-Task programs in this example. All the programs ran at the same time and shared Global
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IAI IX Scara Firmware Upgrade
By Chris Elston
With everything you try new sometimes you find stuff that doesn't always work the way it should out of the box. I kept getting a Speed Loop Error which IAI said that it was because I had more than 3 multi programs running at once. (I have 10 multi-
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IAI E-Stop and Enable Parameter Wizard Program
By Chris Elston
Wizard EXE program that helps you change your X-SEL IAI robot parameters to resume recover from an e-stop or however you want to set up your program. This is a wizard that asks you some questions then tells you what parameters to change in the robot to
512 downloads
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IAI IX Scara Additional Command Reference
By Chris Elston
This is a PDF that contains some new commands not in the older scara programming manual for the IX controller
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IAI X-Sel Controller Commands Manual
By Chris Elston
This is a manual for the new X-Sel Controller. Has all the commands defined in this manual.
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IAI X-Sel Software Manual
By Chris Elston
This PDF is a manual for the new X-Sel software. Shows you how the new software works. Excellent improvement over the old software. You can now step through your program and insert programs "break" points.
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Fanuc LR Mate 200iB Teach Pendant Program
By Chris Elston
Here is a recent Fanuc robot program I did with LR Handling tool (teach pendant programming). This program contains several sub programs that do various tasks.
Pick up the part
Do a vision routine
if pass palletize
if fail reject part
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How to Upgrade a Fanuc LR Mate Robot to a USA Version Operating System
By Chris Elston
Word Document that explains step-by-step how to upgrade your LR Mate Japan operating system with a USA version operating system.
Did you know that if you order a LR Mate robot with software options that you should upgrade your software in your rob
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GE Fanuc LR Mate Crash Testing (Take #1)
By Chris Elston
DISCLAIMER:
What you are about to see is our own testing.
It's not a video to be used as a guide our test
results will not be POSTED. You are expected
to run and prove your own safety testing on
any automation products you develop...
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GE Fanuc LR Mate Crash Testing (Take #2)
By Chris Elston
DISCLAIMER:
What you are about to see is our own testing.
It's not a video to be used as a guide our test
results will not be POSTED. You are expected
to run and prove your own safety testing on
any automation products you develop...
979 downloads
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IAI Second Edition X-Sel Software Manual
By Chris Elston
Second Edition X-Sel Controller manual from Intelligent Actuator.
Very nicely done new graphic illustrations. Error Code table updated.
I haven't read it all the way through yet but pictures are worth a thousand words. Looks like IAI h
950 downloads
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IAI X-SEL Controller and DVT 500 Vision Guide Ethernet
By Chris Elston
This is a 27-page application note from IAI Tech Support. Explains how to integrate a DVT camera to an X-Sel controller. There is also basic information about Ethernet integration for the X-Sel controller should you need to understand the capabilities of
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Electrical Drawing for an Emerson FM-3 Servo Drive
By Chris Elston
Here is my version of an electrical drawing for an Emerson FM-3 servo drive. Everyone has their own idea of how to draw something. I am not saying this is the right way or the wrong way but it's something to start with. I use AutoCad Electrical 2004
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Video - Emerson FM-3 Servo Indexer Drive Unit
By Chris Elston
Here is a short video clip of the Emerson FM-3 servo unit.
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Animatics Troubleshooting Program for SMART MOTORS
By Chris Elston
Very helpful VB program I got from one of the tech guys at Animatics. You can use this troubleshoot and run some pretty good self checks on the motor. Very nice debug tool.
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Animatics - Tons of example programs and training docs
By Chris Elston
Very helpful example programs I got from one of tech guys at Animatics. Excellent starter logic for different applications like:
Example print of all ASCII characters
Home to Hard Stop Example
Home to Internal Index Only
Home to Internal
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Vision Guided IAI IX Scara Robot with Cognex
By Chris Elston
Source code for the IAI robot and Cognex job file I used to do this vision guided robot application. This download compliments an article I wrote about this application.
http://www.mrplc.com/kb/index.php?page=index_v2&id=72&c=20' target='
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IMCalc Inertia & Mass Calculator
By Chris Elston
Great tool for just about anything. I use it to make sure the EOATS (end of arm tooling) are not too heavy for robots. With permission from ControlEng to host this file at MrPLC.com.
The Inertia & Mass Calculator creates a table of elements.
http://www.controleng.ca/IM_Download.htm
Version 1.2 - April 30th 2006
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