Smart Skills

Description

Smart skills are quick-access robot actions that you can start and stop to achieve a smoother and faster programming experience. Through these actions, you can manipulate the robot, any external systems, or end effectors.

These are the Smart Skills to choose:

 

Activated

Deactivated

  • Put into Box
  • Custom

 
To access Smart Skills

There are two ways to access Smart Skills:

  • via Move section in sidebar

  • via Application tab in the main navigation

 
Access via Move section

Via Move section is where you press and hold the button on the teach pendant while the smart skill is executing. The corresponding robot movement is seen in the main screen.

  1. Tap the Move icon in the sidebar.

  2. Choose the Smart Skills icon at the top right.
 

  1. In the Relative To field, you can choose from the four features or frames or default coordinate systems:

    • World. This frame is the same as the base when the robot is mounted in a fixed location. The world frame is always fixed even when the robot is mounted in a moveable location, and you can update the base frame as the robot moves.

    • Base. The robot’s base element, referring to the frame of the base, which is located in the center of base bottom. If your robot is mounted in a fixed location, this frame will never need to change, and other fixed locations can be defined relative to it.

    • Flange. It's placed on the robot's tool flange and can only be moved by moving the robot.

    • TCP. The position of the active TCP and updates as the robot moves when jogged or while a program is running.

      See Frames to know more when to use the pertinent default coordinate system.

  2. In the Robot field, you choose either Active_TCP or Tool_flange. If Active_TCP is selected, the name of the current active TCP is displayed.
Access via Application tab Via Application tab is where you can configure and set up the input arguments.

  1. Tap the Application tab in the main navigation. See Smart Skills Application.

  2. Choose the Smart Skills application menu.

     

     

    You are directed to the Smart Skills application screen. 
      

 

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