Multiple Software Solutions Powered by Stäubli

Stäubli Robotics Posted 07/30/2010

Powerful. Flexible. Unique.
 
Stäubli introduces its updated software structure including new products. The Latest Innovations in Robotic Programming and Control.

All Stäubli robots are operated from the CS8 control system. The most technologically advanced on the market, the CS8 controller series are ideally suited for applications requiring complex process control and provide a single platform for controlling the entire Stäubli range. PC-based and easy to use, it allows for centralized control of all robotics applications.
 
In order to facilitate the development of robotic applications and programming, Stäubli now offers a comprehensive set of user-friendly yet powerful software solutions perfectly adapted for all needs. These software solutions are either embedded in the CS8 robot controller under the label Stäubli Robotic Controller (SRC), or are running on a PC as part of Stäubli Robotics Suite (SRS). SRC includes VAL3 language, VAL products solutions and the new uniVAL drive.
 
VAL3 language, at the heart of the CS8 control system
VAL3 is Stäubli’s advanced robotics environment developed specifically for the unique requirements of robotics. Simple yet powerful, VAL3 allows for easy programming as well as the ability to optimize robotics performance. Open architecture enables easy system integration and data exchange via several different Fieldbus options, Ethernet and ModBus TCP and OPCs. In order to support continuous operation and ensure that robotic functions adapt to a range of contingencies, VAL3 includes built-in development and diagnosis, issue/error logging and de-bugging tools.
 
VAL3’s latest released version 7.0 features 3D arrays, data dictionaries, a special array with a string index instead of a number, user-defined data structures, new IO management, and several new instructions.

VALproducts solutions: Application-specific. User-centric.
Stäubli presents VALproducts, a suite of unique, ready to use market solutions. Highly user-friendly, these modular, plug-and-play solutions feature specialized functionality and enable the user to perform programming and operations directly on the control pendant. The VALproducts solutions include:

VALtending: machine tending and pick and place
VALplast: Plastics; IMM Tending
VALtrack: Conveyor Tracking
VALhsm: High-speed Machining 
PaintiXen: Painting 
 
uniVAL drive: a “ready to plug” solution
uniVAL drive is the latest development from Stäubli. This very unique and innovative product targets machine builders who want to drive Stäubli robots with a generic industrial motion controller. It is very simple to connect to state of the art real time Ethernet based field buses. It is fully compliant to existing high level industrial axis control protocols and fully compatible with Stäubli services and maintenance tools.
 
SRS: Bringing the robotics environment to the desktop
Stäubli’s SRS is a Windows® based software workbench for offline programming and online operations. It brings all of the power of VAL3 and CS8 into a familiar Windows environment, dramatically simplifying robotics programming and control. Complete controller-level functionality is mirrored on the desktop with a user-friendly interface, enabling the user to control the teach pendant from a PC. The package includes:

• VAL3 Studio, an offline VAL3 application editor and online debugger
• Emulator, a Windows-based emulator of the CS8 controller
• 3D Studio, for 3D visualization of robot arm and trajectory data 

SRS also includes a downloading tool that transfers and manages files, including one-button data backup and ability to connect to the CS8 controller for remote maintenance as well as Remote access tool for online diagnostics over the Internet.

SRS new version 7.0 offers several new features, including an off-line debugger, which makes it possible to debug an application from the PC. It also has a larger screen, a watch list for variables, and a call stack listing. The new version of Studio Editor offers both flat and hierarchical views of linked data, allowing the user to view simple, alphabetically sorted lists of point, frame and tool variables, or check which points and frames are linked to which frames, and which tools to which tools. Other enhancements include an updated Intellisense for listing instructions, program names, variable names and elements of data structures.
 
SRS version 7.0 supports VAL3 version 7.0 as well as VAL3 applications written in versions 4.x, 5.x and 6.x. With Stäubli Robotics Suite (SRS) on the PC environment and Stäubli Robotics Controller (SRC) components housed on the CS8 controller, Stäubli offers multiple solutions for the needs of all: end users, integrators, OEMs and machine builders.

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