
To mount your BarrettHand™ on a robot, bolt the arm adapter onto the tool-plate bolt circle,
located at the end tip of the robot arm. Next, insert the threaded base of the BarrettHand™
through the hole in the arm adapter shown in Figure 9 aligning the indexing tab on the arm adapter
to the mating alignment slot on the BarrettHand™.
Secure the BarrettHand™ by threading the locking ring (included with your system) onto the base
of the BarrettHand™. Note that, depending on the details of your robot arm, you may need to
loosen the locking ring when installing the Hand cable the next Section.
Figure 9 - Installing an Arm Adapter.
3.2.2
Installing the Hand Cable on a Robot Arm
All of the power and communications for the BarrettHand™ have been consolidated into a single
high-durability robot cable which has a 15-pin connector at the Power Supply end and a tiny 10-
pin connector at the Hand end. To accommodate the complex motions of a robot arm, the
BarrettHand™ Hand Cable is extremely flexible and has been designed for compatibility with
both internal and external mounting schemes. When a robot arm does provide an internal channel,
the cross-section of the channel is tightly constrained. Therefore the Hand cable has been made
with a particularly tiny connector at one end to ease internal installation. The base of the Hand
Adaptor includes an opening to accommodate direct access from an internal cable to the back of
the BarrettHand™.
For external installation, plan to route the Hand Cable close to the center of each joint. Each
segment will need enough slack to accommodate the most extreme motions but not so much that
the cable might become snagged. Mount the cable clips to flat, dry, and clean link surfaces at
strategic points along the robot arm. Clean cable clip attachment areas with alcohol before
attaching via the self-adhesive backings. Place the BarrettHand™ Hand Cable loosely through the
cable retaining clips on the robot and the Arm Adapter. Move the robot arm through all of its
motion extremes to verify that the cable slack is adequate in each segment and that it will not snag.
Once verified, tighten the cable clips to secure the cable in place.
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