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Appendix C: Glossary
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safe zone The boundary within which the robot (head, arms, and grippers) is
allowed to move without colliding with external devices.
shelves The components inside of the stacker head that provide leveling
surfaces for the microplates, thus ensuring accurate robot gripping,
during the downstacking process.
stacker grippers The padding at the bottom of the stacker racks that hold microplates
when a microplate is loaded, downstacked, or upstacked.
task parameters The parameters associated with each task in a protocol. For example, in
a labeling task, the parameters include the label value.
teachpoint A teachpoint is a set of coordinates that define where the robot can
pick up or place labware and the location of a known object.
teachpoint file The XML file that contains the settings for one or more external device
teachpoints.
upstack The process in which a microplate is moved back into the stack.
workspace The boundary within which the robot (head, arms, and grippers) can
move without limitations.
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