MELFA Automatic Calibration

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After you set up Standard Interface communication, you can connect the robot to perform automatic calibration. The overall workflow of automatic calibration is shown in the figure below.

calibration process

Special note

During the calibration procedure, when you reach the Connect the robot step and the Waiting for robot to connect... button appears in Mech-Vision, perform the steps below on the robot side. After you perform the steps, proceed with the remaining steps in Mech-Vision.

  1. Select and modify the calibration program

  2. Teach the calibration start point

  3. Run the calibration program

1. Select and Modify the Calibration Program

  1. Start ToolBox3. In the Workspace pane, click Program to expand the list, select MMAUTOCALIB, and open the program page.

  2. After opening the MMAUTOCALIB program page, click Edit in the option bar in the lower half of the interface, and modify the program parameters according to the actual robot conditions.

2. Teach the Calibration Start Point

  1. After opening the MMAUTOCALIB program page, click the Cartesian table in the lower half of the interface, select variable PCalStart, and click Read Current Position.

  2. Click Save or use shortcut ctrl+s to open the Write Project pop-up window. Confirm that the modified items are selected, and click btn[OK] to write the updated program configuration.

3. Run the Calibration Program

  1. On the robot control panel, click Select to open the Select Program pop-up window in ToolBox3.

  2. Select MMAUTOCALIB, click OK, confirm that the lower-right corner of the robot control panel shows automatic mode, and click Start to run the program.

  3. When, in the Calibration window in Mech-Vision, the current status changes to connected and the button Waiting for the robot to connect... changes to Disconnect robot, click Next at the bottom.

    start calilbration1

  4. Perform Step 4 of Start calibration (which is Set motion path) and the subsequent operations based the following links.

    • If the camera mounting mode is eye to hand, see this document and proceed with the relevant operations.

    • If the camera mounting mode is eye in hand, see this document and proceed with the relevant operations.

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