Planning This article covers several ways of editing operations to avoid collisions for simultaneous multi-robot work areas. (Potentially an in-depth walkthrough?) Manual methods of mitigating collisions for multi-robot simultaneous. Procedure on how to rearrange and change path directions to avoid multi-robot collisions., moving the entry / exit point,
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In some cases, the default robot trajectories for the multiple robots may result in collisions between the robots.
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Move start point
Operations 1 and 3 are processed by different robots, and there is a collision between the joints of the robots.
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One way to solve this a collision is to move the entry/exit point on one of the profiles paths further away.
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In On the Device tab, in the Operations pane, right-click an operation and select Edit in task.
Select the path, then click the red ball at the entry/exit point.
Click a point along the path to move the entry/exit to a different location.
In the Task tab, select Apply and then OK to keep your changes.
In the Device tab, select Calculate.
Confirm that the collision no longer occurs.
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For applications where it is possible to change the direction in which a path is processed, you can try changing reversing the path direction to solve collisions.
In On the Device tab, in the Operations pane, right-click an operation and select Edit in task.
Right-click the path (be sure to right-click one of the vectors on the path), then select Path > Invert direction.
Confirm that the path direction is reversed.
In the Task tab, select Apply and then OK to keep your changes.
In the Device tab, select Calculate.
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Rearrange operations
Another method way of solving collisions is to plan and rearrange operations. This can be done by changing the order sequence in which operations are sequenced performed for a given robot and/or .
If the robots are performing the same application (for example, if they are both deburring tools), reassigning operations to different robots can solve collisions as well.
When planning the sequence of operations in a multi-robot cell, consider required spacing between robots, how much room is available in the work cell, whether you need to include an additional buffer distance for safety.
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