Flip robot to have upside down orientation

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Brendon N asked Aug 14 2018 at 4:56 PM tannerp edited Aug 14 2018 at 8:46 PM

Flip robot to have upside down orientation

I am modeling a ceiling mounted robot arm in my model but when I flip the orientation of the robot, the arm does not travel to where it is supposed to. It is like it does not know it is upside down and it ends up picking objects out of the sky and bringing them to the wrong location. How can I flip the robot's reference frame? I've attached the model with the problem.

inverted-robot.fsm

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FlexSim 18.2.0

robot robot arm orientation robot upside down

inverted-robot.fsm (39.6 KiB)

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Answer 1 · 2018-08-14T17:14:36Z

tannerp answered Aug 14 2018 at 5:14 PM tannerp edited Aug 14 2018 at 8:46 PM

Using the planner item, it's relatively easy to set paths for everything you need. Here's your model with updated motion paths. Let me know if this helps!

robots-inverted-example.fsm

planner-item-robots-example.png (144.2 KiB)

robots-inverted-example.fsm (39.7 KiB)

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Brendon N commented · Aug 14 2018 at 8:33 PM

@Tanner Poulton Thank you very much, this worked quite well. Another question, if I were to add a multitude of new destination queues, would I have to manually create paths for each new unload?

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tannerp Brendon N commented · Aug 14 2018 at 8:42 PM

That's correct. They will copy from robot to robot if you were to highlight all the objects involved and paste them elsewhere, but as this gif shows, it doesn't need to be too tedious of a process.

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robots-planner-item.gif (790.7 KiB)

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