TF5420 | TwinCAT 3 Motion Pick-and-Place

TwinCAT 3 Motion Pick-and-Place is an extension of TwinCAT 3 NC I (TF5100) and was especially designed for handling tasks carried out by gantry robots and other kinematics. Special methods are used to blend movement commands, facilitating optimized cycle times when they are processed. This reduces the bumpiness of motion along the path, making it run more smoothly, which is vital for high cycle times, gentle treatment of the robot and careful handling of the products.

The TF5420 is programmed using a PLC library. There is no limit on the number of axes in a pick-and-place group, the only limiting factor is the processing power of the controller. Given an appropriate level of processing power, interpolating movement commands can be processed even for complex machines with more than three or eight axes (three path plus five auxiliary axes).

The dynamics for coordinates and the path can be configured individually from version V3.2.27. The Tc3_Physics library is used for this. The TF5440 license for the Tc3_Physics library is included in TF5420.