ROBOGUIDE
FANUC's ROBOGUIDE is a leading offline programming and simulation software for FANUC robots, enabling users to create, program, and simulate robotic work cells in a 3D environment without the need for physical prototypes. This software family includes process-focused packages such as HandlingPRO, PaintPRO, PalletPRO, and WeldPRO, each tailored to specific applications like material handling, painting, palletizing, and welding. By utilizing virtual robots and work cell models, ROBOGUIDE minimizes risks and costs by allowing visualization and optimization of single and multi-robot work cell layouts before actual installation. This approach facilitates accurate cycle time calculations, reachability checks, and collision detection, ensuring the feasibility and efficiency of robot programs and cell layouts. Additionally, ROBOGUIDE supports CAD-to-path programming, conveyor line tracking, and machine modeling, enhancing the precision and flexibility of robotic operations.
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Visual Components
Visual Components offers comprehensive Robot Offline Programming (OLP) software designed to streamline and expedite the programming of industrial robots across various brands and applications. The platform enables users to create, simulate, and validate robot programs in a virtual environment, significantly reducing the need for physical prototypes and minimizing production downtime. Key features include automated path solving to detect and resolve collision and reachability issues, realistic simulation capabilities with detailed visual graphics, and universal compatibility with over 18 post-processors and 40+ robot controllers, supporting diverse tasks such as welding, processing, spraying, jigless assembly, and part handling. The software's user-friendly interface allows for quick learning and efficient programming, even for complex layouts involving multiple robots and robotic assembly operations.
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MotoSim
Yaskawa Motoman's MotoSim EG-VRC (Enhanced Graphics Virtual Robot Controller) is a sophisticated offline programming and 3D simulation software tailored for the precise programming of complex robotic systems. It enables users to construct and simulate robotic work cells virtually, eliminating the need for physical robots during the development phase. Key features include optimizing robot and equipment placement, reach modeling, accurate cycle time calculations, automatic path generation, collision detection, system configuration, condition file editing, and Functional Safety Unit (FSU) configuration. The software incorporates a virtual robot controller, providing a programming pendant interface identical to the actual controller, ensuring a seamless transition from simulation to real-world application. Additionally, MotoSim EG-VRC offers access to an extensive model library, allowing users to download a broad range of third-party models to enhance their simulations.
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CoppeliaSim
CoppeliaSim, developed by Coppelia Robotics, is a versatile and powerful robot simulation platform utilized for rapid algorithm development, factory automation simulations, fast prototyping and verification, robotics education, remote monitoring, safety double-checking, and digital twin creation. It features a distributed control architecture, allowing each object or model to be individually controlled via embedded scripts (Python or Lua), plugins (C/C++), remote API clients (Python, Lua, Java, MATLAB, Octave, C, C++, Rust), or custom solutions. The simulator supports five physics engines, MuJoCo, Bullet Physics, ODE, Newton, and Vortex Dynamics, for fast and customizable dynamics calculations, enabling realistic simulation of real-world physics and object interactions, including collision response, grasping, soft bodies, strings, ropes, and cloths. CoppeliaSim provides forward and inverse kinematics calculations for any type of mechanism.
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