ROBOTICA Studio goes 1.6! 🚀

This release brings three four important updates:

Articulation tool
Joint limits and initial positions
Updated signals
New camera movement instruction

Articulation tool

We are introducing a new way to interact with ROBOTICA Studio using tools. Tools are a set of functionalities that let you configure and set up things in edit time.

In the case of the articulation tool, you can during the edit time test your articulation, by editing the values of prismatic and revolute joints, and at the same time store initial positions of your articulated body, just like in real world setups.

Instead of entering simulation mode just to validate motion, you can now interactively move joints and evaluate how your mechanism behaves directly in edit time.

This helps you:

Build and validate articulated assemblies faster.
Reduce trial-and-error iterations.
Debug joint behavior before running the simulation.

Joint limits and initial positions

This release brings three new configuration fields to the articulation controller:

joints initial positions
upper mechanical limits
lower mechanical limits

Joint limits

We are bringing joint limits to ROBOTICA Studio so you can build articulations that are closer to real setups. Inside the articulation component you will be able to set up the lower and upper limits of revolute and prismatic joints.

This allows you to:

Prevent unrealistic movements.
Respect mechanical constraints.
Simulate more reliable and accurate systems.

Initial positions

When an articulation is built inside ROBOTICA Studio, not always the 3D CAD is in the perfect conditions. We added a parameter called initial position where you can state the position of the joints before entering the simulation.

The initial position and limits will be used by the articulation tool for you to test your articulation, and evaluate its functionality. This means less friction in the setup phase and more focus on validating motion, reachability and sequencing.

Note that changing the initial position directly on the component will not change the articulation's position, it will just change the current position of the joint. To visually change the position, you must use the articulation tool.

New signals

We are bringing new signals that will help you program even more complex simulation.

Conveyor

A brand new integer speed signal for you to program and interact with dynamic conveyor speeds
A brand new boolean signal to invert the direction of your conveyor during runtime
A brand new output that states if the conveyor is running or not

These signals allow you to simulate adaptive flow logic, speed variations and bidirectional transport systems.

Vacuum

A brand new vacuum output, that states if a component is attached to your vacuum component

This makes pick-and-place validation more reliable and allows tighter synchronization between gripping logic and motion.

Articulation controller

A brand new output that states if an articulation controller (a robot, a cartesian axis or machine) is running

Move camera

We are introducing a new camera movement instruction that allows you to create more immersive and dynamic presentations of your automation concepts.

You can now define predefined camera points and program the camera to move between them during simulation.