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Motion and I/O Principles Positioning during Program Execution<br />

p1<br />

Programmed<br />

position zones<br />

Corner zones as<br />

calculated by the robot<br />

Figure 22 Interpolation with overlapping position zones. The zones around p2 and p3 are larger<br />

than half the distance from p2 to p3. Thus, the robot reduces the size of the zones to<br />

make them equal to half the distance from p2 to p3, thereby generating symmetrical<br />

corner paths within the zones.<br />

Both position and orientation corner path zones can overlap. As soon as one of these<br />

corner path zones overlap, that zone is reduced (see Figure 23).<br />

Programmed<br />

orientation zone<br />

Generated<br />

orientation zone<br />

p1<br />

Position zones<br />

Figure 23 Interpolation with overlapping orientation zones. The orientation zone at p2 is larger<br />

than half the distance from p2 to p3 and is thus reduced to half the distance from p2<br />

to p3. The position zones do not overlap and are consequently not reduced; the<br />

orientation zone at p3 is not reduced either.<br />

2.3.8 Planning time for fly-by points<br />

p2<br />

p2<br />

Orientation zone<br />

Occasionally, if the next movement is not planned in time, programmed fly-by points<br />

can give rise to a stop point. This may happen when:<br />

- A number of logical instructions with long program execution times are<br />

<strong>RAPID</strong> Reference Manual 6-21<br />

p3<br />

p3<br />

Generated<br />

path<br />

Generated path<br />

p4<br />

p4

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