Patent ID: 11919163
Assignee: WITTMANN TECHNOLOGY GMBH
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. The robot and/or robot controller according to claim 10, wherein:
the robot and/or the robot controller is configured to carry out a method for validating programmed process sequences of teaching programs of the robot configured with the robot controller, the robot being the physical robot mounted on or next to the injection molding machine and for removal, handling, manipulation or further processing of injection molded parts that have just been produced, the method comprising:
storing data comprising process parameters, equipment features, and functionalities of the physical robot on the control side in the configuration file;
using the robot controller in creating the virtual robot from the stored data and applying it to the current teaching program in the robot controller to validate a process sequence of the robot controller, with a visualization of the process sequence being displayed directly on an output unit of the robot controller, with the virtual robot of any command line of the teaching program from the physical robot being decoupled and is used for the validation of certain commands and sub-sequences in the teaching program for potential collisions or incorrect behavior;
with the virtual robot following the physical robot in a coupled state and with decoupling, this synchronization between the virtual robot and the physical robot is stopped, with the coupled physical robot executing the current program sequence up to a possible collision situation and only then is switching made to the virtual robot with the simulation of dangerous states; and
with the virtual robot after the decoupling at any time coupled with the physical robot is coupling and resetting to an initial state in order to then validate further sub-sequences of the teaching program.