Equipment/Staubli

Staubli robot arm
Model	RX60L
Sub-category	Robotics
Status	retired and scrapped
Last updated	4 August 2022 21:26:32
Training requirement	None
ACnode	no
Owner	Robotics group
Origin	Donation

Kindly donated to us by Queen Mary University's School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science was missing arm and power cables. A copy of the original cable was made and used until the failure of the controller - it was then scrapped A generic one was then made up using RJ45 for the encoder cables and SPECON for the servo motors themselves

Status

retired and scrapped

Specs

It was driven by an open source controller due to failure of the original controller

• Robot arm
  • Type: RX60L
  • Reference/machine number: 597411 - 01
  • Fabrication Le F - 12 - 1997
  • Masse kg 42Kg

• STMBL
  • Type 4.1
  • The STMBL along with Messa cards driven by linuxcnc have been used to control the arm, massive support has been received from the open source community (STMBL and LinuxCNC) as well as Messa who did a custom firmware reactivity for us while we were having a hack weekend - great international and multidisciplinary team work.

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  STMBL Case

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  Hackspace, STMBL and Linuxcnc Team

We have movement https://flic.kr/p/21GzpWj

Some photos/videos of the beast

There is a 19 way cable running inside the arm, to allow external signals to be routed to the end effector. This uses a 19 way plug on the wrist joint and base called a Binder Connector.

Docs/Links

Gcode demos

Robot startup/shutdown procedure

Technical manual with schematics

Arm Manual

CS7 User Guide

CS7 Electrical Diagrams

Padski's Cable Schematic

The Linux setup on the ARM controller board