Moving the Robot Manually
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P/N 113564 Rev. 2
Twister II Robot User’s Manual
Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.
Initializing and Homing the Robot
Initializing the robot establishes communication between the robot
and the robot software and loads the settings from the INI file. You
must have the correct INI file open to initialize the robot.
To initialize the robot:
1
On the Robot software main window, click the Manual Control
tab.
2
On the Manual Control tab, click the
Initialize
button.
WARNING
Home All Axes
moves the robot from the current position directly
up to vertical home. Be sure there is nothing in the way before
clicking the Home All Axes button to prevent a crash and spilling the
material contents.
3
Click the
Home All Axes
button. This command
moves the
robot to the home position of each axis
:
•
Vertical - Arm lifts to highest position.
•
Reach - Arm fully retracts.
•
Rotary - Robot rotates to a position above rack 2.
•
Wrist -
Twister II: The wrist rotates the grips perpendicular to the
robot arm.
XP Robot: The wrist rotates the grips parallel to the
bench.
•
Grip - Grips open.
•
Track - If the robot is mounted on a track. the robot moves to
the beginning of the track.
