The software development team of R&D Robotics, Sweden, which I belong to, have just passed delivery stop for RobotWare and RAB 5.12. It has been quite a busy period, as always, but a lot of fun. Next comes quite a long period of testing both here in Sweden, as well as in Shanghai and Bangalore. Finally, the software is validated by our local units in the US and in Germany, France and Spain. The planned release month is April (for RW, RAB and RobotStudio).
The nicest new feature that will come with RAB 5.12, I think, is Remote UI-Instruction. It will enable an operator to communicate with the robot system from a PC SDK application (instead of using the FlexPendant) when a UI- or TP- RAPID instruction is executed. The following RAPID instructions are supported:
UIAlphaEntry,
UIListView,
UIMessageBox,
UIMsgBox,
UINumEntry,
UINumTune,
TPErase,
TPReadFK,
TPReadNum,
TPWrite
To make use of this, the PC SDK application sets up a subscription to a UIInstructionEvent. When it is notified of an event it reads the event arguments and creates a dialog accordingly. When the operator has entered a text or a number, or clicked a button or a list item the method SendAnswer will transfer the operator feedback to the RAPID program. Pretty cool - don't you think?
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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