Hi all,
New member here, and first post!
I have a large spot-welding robot that used to work on a production line at a closed down car factory. See attached. I have connected new servo amplifiers and resolvers to the motors, and have installed and tested my Windows XP PC with a Galil motion control card. I have tested all the (5) axis and all the hardware is going well. This has been a lot of work so far, as I received the robot with no instructions, no manuals and no controller or power supply! So the next step is to get it to mill something......
The easiest way I can think of using the robot is to use the rotating base as the Z axis, and the two arm motors for the X and Y axis. (do you follow me so far? The "X Y Table" would be vertical) Think of a SCARA robot. That's basically what I need to do.... The X and Y coordinates have to be translated into A and B coordinates of the two motor arms.
This would be to cut 2D cuts into say MDF with a router..... So I wouldn't be utilising many of the robot's full capabilities, but you gotta start somewhere....
I wonder if anyone has any experience using formulas to do this?
Another less convoluted way of asking the same question without my specific complicated details, is whether anyone has ever used a SCARA robot like this for instance
http://www.directindustry.com/prod/adept-technology/product-6076-153983.html, and had any luck using Mach3 formulas to control the two motors to follow a standard X Y router table.
Cheers Haxby (From Melbourne Australia)