Overview

Welcome to the Realistic Robot Simulation User's Guide.

This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the Realistic Robot Simulation workbench product.

Realistic Robot Simulation in a Nutshell

Realistic Robot Simulation (RRS) is an add-on product for the Factory Layout and Robotics product configuration.

Realistic Robot Simulation (RRS) allows a simulation software (CAR system) to interface with the RCS (Robot Controller Simulation) module, the robot manufacturer's proprietary motion planning software. This direct interaction provides greater accuracy in motion trajectory as well as cycle time.

Once RRS is enabled for a robot, the RRS Operations command will allow you to invoke the following functionality on the RRS robot based on selecting the corresponding tab page in the RRS Operations dialog:

• Get robot stamp

• Save/Load RCS data (degree of support dependent on RCS support)

• Enable/disable RRS debug log generation by the RCS module

• Displaying of robot's RRS (connection etc.) parameter settings

• Displaying RRS-I interface DLL/RCS module controller-specific attribute dialogs

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:


  • Device Task Design User's Guide

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to Realistic Robot Simulation, and the Customizing section, which explains how to customize settings, will also certainly prove useful.