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Concept of work-flow and robot motion planning

Ruth Leska — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:04:44 +0000

As described in the chapter for the setup-editor, in AUTOMAPPPS, we partially uncouple the process (defined by robot tool-paths) and the execution of those paths by the robots. This simplifies the programming and optimization. While the process result is of highest interest, and mostly defined by the tool-paths in the setup-editor, the robots need to execute them. To make the programming easier and faster, so far it was not necessary, to select the robot to execute a path, or the axis setting, or the timing (especially in conveyor-tracking). This is done in the workflow-editor.

At start, a short introduction to the GUI of the setup editor is provided as quick-start in the next video.

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Creating a new workflow

Ruth Leska — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:04:00 +0000

The chapter describe how to create a workflow (including how to make use of the actions defined in the setup in the workflow – which is actually a preview to 2.2.2.)

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more examples how to create a new workflow – with increasing complexity.

Also shown:

how to insert and split actions (which is actually already an outview to 2.2.2)

how to change priority of robot and external axes

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Assign actions to robots

Ruth Leska — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:05:39 +0000

The video describes (in 2 different examples with 1 and 2 robots and external axes) how to assign one or several tool paths (including meanders etc.), which has been created in the setup, to a robot in a workflow. This specifies (initally) which robots are executing which tool-paths at which time. Assignment, order and timing can be changed later easily.

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Modify the timing

Ruth Leska — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:06:20 +0000

coming soon…

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Interact with the robot / tool

Ruth Leska — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:07:05 +0000

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Export robot programs

Christof Eberst — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:34:31 +0000

Comming soon:

How to export the robot program

How to deal with the export parameters (linear motions vs. ptp, Object-frames, references), select the program style (“all in one” , “one-sub-program per action”). and so on.

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Expert tricks

Ruth Leska — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:07:38 +0000

How to transfer/copy settings from one robot or device to another?

You can copy optimized settings, which may include

robot parameters (including exporter parameters and tex-tmodifyers)
Feasibility mal parameters
Specific planner parameters
Program importer parameters (for some robot manufacturers only)
Associated devices (external axes)

from one robot (or other device) to several robots (or other devices) of your choice. This is especially helpful if you made some optimizations (late in the project) for one workflow or on robot of many in a workflow and want the others to apply the same settings. If it is early in the project, you simply duplicate the workflow which includes the settings.

Select the device (her the FANUC robot) which was optimized and which settings shall be used by all other FANUC robots.

“Copy device specific parameters to”

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You can select the following parameter sets to be copied to other FANUC robots to be defined subsequently:

Feasibilty Maps parameters:
Device Specific Planner parameters:
Program Exporter Parameters, such as Base frame, speed settings, linear or ptp, sampling a.s.o.
Program importer parameters:
associated devices, e.g. which external axis are connected

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Final steps:

Select the devices parameters to copy / transfer
select the robots to copy them to. note: devices should be of same kind. Do not copy the settings of an external axis to a robot.
Press the transfer button in the center and the target devices are shown
Add mode devices if wanted
Press OK

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