Robot with 2 grippers

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Robert F2 asked Nov 16, '20 Jason Lightfoot edited Nov 18, '20

Robot with 2 grippers

Hello,

I am trying to simulate a process that uses a robot with two grippers to tend a machine. Here is the process I am attempting but not having success at:

Robot grabs an item from IncomingConveyor using gripper(1)
Robot places item in Processor1
Robot grabs another item from IncomingConveyor using gripper(1)
Robot unloads processed item from Processor1 using gripper(2) while holding an unprocessed item in gripper(1)
Robot then places the unprocessed item in gripper(1) into Processor1
Robot takes processed item in gripper(2) to OutgoingConveyor and the process repeats.

My original thinking was to try to change the robots capacity to 2 while it was tending the processor and then change the capacity back to 1 when tending the conveyors, but I could not get this to work.

Thanks for any help!

DualGripper.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.2

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.0.0

flexsim 20.0.0 robot holding 2 parts two-grippers

dualgripper.fsm (43.6 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2020-11-17T23:09:12Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Nov 17, '20 Jason Lightfoot edited Nov 18, '20

The problem with your approach is that the job to pick up the second item from the incoming Conveyor will not get created until the robot removes the first item from the processor - since it had capacity 1, preventing the 2nd item from being accepted in. Setting the processor capacity to 2 doesn't give the behaviour I think you want.

I think a small process flow might be best - here's a simple example with a fixed cycle for the robot.

dualgripper_jl.fsm

dualgripper-jl.fsm (54.7 KiB)

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