Training Patterns on the Robot Screen

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a pick and place task using the robot´s train by demonstration capabilities and patterns. As with the previous simple pick and place tutorial, this task can be created entirely on the Sawyer´s head screen. 

Contents

• Contents
• Definitions
• Prerequisites
• Training Pick and Place Patterns

Definitions

• Train by Demonstration
• Pattern - In Intera, a pattern is a template of discernible regularity. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner.
• Zero-G

Prerequisites

• Getting Started with Intera 5
• Configuring End of Arm Tooling
• Performing a Pick and Place

Training Pick and Place Patterns

The following 2x3 grid pattern will be used to represent the pick locations and boundaries:

• Start a new task.
• Move the robot arm in zero-G mode to the first point in the picking location, in this example, #1. This will be the outside boundary for this corner of the pattern.
• Press the Grasp button. The Head Screen displays the Insert Pick menu.

• Scroll to Pattern and press the Grasp button to select it. The left side of the Head Screen now displays the steps you need to perform to create a pattern.

Defining the Type of Pattern

• Press the OK button on the Navigator. That will display the type of pattern options: line, grid, and box.

• Select the Grid option, as shown.

Defining Pattern Corners

• Since you chose to create a grid, the next step is to define its corners. Press OK to start defining corners.

• You will now set the outside corner -- the outer pick location of the first part -- for the first corner in the grid.
• If the robot arm is not already there, move it in zero-G to the first corner, which would be #1 in our 2x3 grid example.

• Press the OK button on the Navigator. (The Grasp button or the round Action button on the cuff will also work).
• Repeat these steps for corners 2, 3, and 4. Make sure to define the corners in the order shown.
• When you have defined all the corners, you will see the following display:

• Press OK to go to the next step.

Defining Numbers of Actions

• Remember that, in our example, there are 2 rows across the top of the grid, from corner #1 to corner #2, and 3 rows down, from corner #2 to corner #3.

• Scroll to display 2 in the box on top of the screen and select it with the OK button.

• There are three rows from corner #2 to corner #3, so scroll to the small box on the right side of the screen and change the number to 3 and press OK, as show below.

• Scroll to the 5x5x1 checkbox and press OK. The setup of rows will look like this:

Defining the Direction

• Press OK to allow modifications to the direction,

• Scroll to choose the direction of the arm movement, that is, in which direction the first two picks are going to be. This example shows the arm will move from 1 to 2.

Defining Movement

• Select the type of arm movement desired for the picks, either Snake or Zigzag.

• Move the robot arm in zero-G to the first pick location and place the gripper in a position so that it can grab the part.
• Press OK to close the gripper and build the pick branch.

Train the Place Pattern

• Now, to create the corresponding place pattern for this task, press the Grasp button.

The following Insert Place menu screen will display:

• Select Pattern.

The steps for creating a place pattern are virtually the same as creating the pick pattern. When you have completed those steps, your Head Screen should look much like this one:

• You may now run the task.

Notice how the parent node for the pick is a pattern node.