Scorpion

Scorpion is an open source robotic controller for Industrial Robots currently in beta.

Scorpion contains tools to control and read feedback from universal robots UR10s, 

features include:

Inverse kinematic solver for universal robots

Direct upload to the robots through TCP/IP

End-effector Tools

New in version 0.2

Feedback components (to read back the robot statues in real time)

ability to switch between "pose" (more accurate) and "servo rotation" programs.

The tool was created and developed in the AAC “adaptive architecture and computation course, Bartlett school of architecture, UCL, London.

The developing team currently include:

Khaled ElAshry - Vincent Huyghe - Ruairi Glynn

Acknowledgment:

Prof Sean Hanna,  DongHan Shin, Olivier Roulet and the bartlett CADCAM team.

Installation

You will need to install ghPython first please refer to this link

http://www.food4rhino.com/project/ghpython

Then  copy the set of  clusters from the scorpion/userObjects to your user objects folder (usually C:\Users\(UserName)\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\UserObjects).

Use the example file as a start palette for your project

Torurial videos coming soon

The tools are open source and can be directly accessed as clusters from grasshopper. Use at you own risk

For more information and related publications visit

www.scorpion-robotics.com

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Download files and example

Beta 0.1

www.scorpion-robotics.com

www.food4rhino.com/project/scorpion