Difference between revisions of "Robot Hardware Troubleshooting"
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| Excessively jerky movement or acceleration and stall of the last joint of a robolink robot during initial set up of the robot|| Wrong encoder direction || [[Set_up,_testing_of_single_joints#Swap encoder direction|Swap encoder direction]] of this joint | | Excessively jerky movement or acceleration and stall of the last joint of a robolink robot during initial set up of the robot|| Wrong encoder direction || [[Set_up,_testing_of_single_joints#Swap encoder direction|Swap encoder direction]] of this joint | ||
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| + | |Green LEDs on the rail modules are off| No power is supplied to the Modules|Check the power supply and the fuse. | ||
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| + | |Motors do not move | Check the emergency stop state. The red LED on the support | ||
| + | module most not be on. The LED indicates emergency stop| Deactivate emergency stop. | ||
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| + | |The modules do not react to software commands. The green LEDs are not blinking, they are continuously on| There must not be an empty slot between the support module of the electronics and the joint modules. The CAN connection is interrupted by such an empty slot.|Ensure there is no empty slot between the modules | ||
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| + | |The motor stalls: it does not finish a motion and increases in pitch of sound.| This happens, when the load of the motor was too high and it stalled. | Check if there was a collision. | If this happens several times increase the motor current, see chapter 7 of the manual. | ||
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Revision as of 09:47, 12 May 2018
| Problem | Cause | Correction |
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| Excessively jerky movement or acceleration and stall of the last joint of a robolink robot during initial set up of the robot | Wrong encoder direction | Swap encoder direction of this joint |
| No power is supplied to the Modules|Check the power supply and the fuse. | ||
| Check the emergency stop state. The red LED on the support
module most not be on. The LED indicates emergency stop| Deactivate emergency stop. | ||
| There must not be an empty slot between the support module of the electronics and the joint modules. The CAN connection is interrupted by such an empty slot.|Ensure there is no empty slot between the modules | ||
| This happens, when the load of the motor was too high and it stalled. | Check if there was a collision. | If this happens several times increase the motor current, see chapter 7 of the manual. |
