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When a wait-time is added, the robot interrupts a certain time. It is possible to link this wait-time with a property to control the time by changing the property-value. This cannot be done easily but a script to do this kind of connection is shown below. Place the script in a python behaviour thats...

Abstract This article explains how to test for collisions between a robot and its surrounding parts using the COM interface. Overview Collision testing in 3DCreate is implemented in the collision detector layout item , or collision detector. The collision detector contains two node lists, and these lists...

Abstract This article describes how to interpolate robot motion using the COM interface. Overview Motion interpolation is the process of calculating where a robot is at any point in time as it moves from one point to another. 3DCreate can interpolate linear and point-to-point movements with or without...

Abstract This article describes how to use the COM interface to calculate forward and inverse kinematics of a robot model. Overview The parts of a 3DCreate robot model that apply to kinematic calculation are as follows: A RobotController behaviour object. This object defines the joints, or axes, of the...

The general motion planner inside Visual Components software is a text book implementation of a simple trapetzoidial motion. It does not take into account any dynamic constraints and gives accurate results only in special cases. If you need accurate motion simulation to get accurate trajectories or cycle...

No, If you use the IvcKinCalculator object to check the motion, you can check which configurations return a valid solution.- And if the kinematics of that particular robot is built so, that it rejects singular solution, then yes you can detect the singularity. However, often the kinematics is modeled...

It is possible to visualize robot's joint skeleton in 3D world. On the Component Node Tree (Create tab) open right mouse button menu and select Visualize Node Tree. The green line will be drawn from every link's origin the the next link's origin.