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5 axis robot on conveyor

I need to model a 5 axis robot on conveyor.

I have four stations (modelled as queue) where boxes with lid will arrive. I need to use this robot to pick the boxes in a particular order from different or same stations. After picking a box, its lid will be opened by a machine, this lid opening machine is on one end of the conveyor, after opening the lid, the lid will be held by machine, then contents of the box are emptied in another station. Then the lid will closed and box will be returned to its original station.


So far, I have placed 5 decision points on a conveyor (4 for station and 1 for lid opening machine) and control robot movement through process flow. Not sure if there is a simple approach.

My question is how to control the robot movement on conveyor using process flow?

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I wouldn't actually use the conveyor to move the robot. Even just making sure that the robot is not deleted on reset would become unnecessarily complex.

I'd place an AGV path in line with the conveyor, with control points where you currently have the decision points and link the robot to those. Then you can use normal travel activities to make the robot move to the different stations.

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Jason Lightfoot avatar image Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ commented ·
Or use network nodes.
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RahulCH avatar image RahulCH commented ·
will test this method and let you know
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It worked
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