Kinova Link 6 - Plugins; Arm Plugin; Industrial I;O Plugin

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Plugins
The modular design of Link6 makes it a robot with expanding capabilities. The expanding
capabilities are added on as plugins.
Link6 comes with two pre-installed plugins and cannot be uninstalled.
Arm plugin The plugin handles all actions needed to
control the arm. The configuration and settings
of the arm plugin are not visible because they
are not modifiable.
Industrial I/O plugin The plugin handles all general I/O between the
controller and on the wrist. That is, the plugin
exchanges information using pure electrical
signals through cables connected to some
other piece of equipment.
Administrators can install new plugins to expand the capabilities of their robot. The plugins are
on the Kinova website.
All plugins start to run right after they are installed. However, they can be stopped so the settings
can be modified. All plugins that are running are, by default, active. They can be deactivated to
stop their functionality.
Many plugins contain actions that the user can use when programming the robot with the visual
programming interface in KortexWebApp. Each plugin also contains the parameters that can be
modified in KortexWebApp from the corresponding plugin page.
All plugins have two pages: Configurations and About.
Related topics
Visual programming on page 162
Installing plugins on page 148
Overview of working with plugins on page 150
Arm plugin
Link6 comes with the arm plugin pre-installed.
There are no configurable parameters for the arm. The Configurations portion of the Arm plugin
page merely states that it does not have any modifiable configurations.
The About portion lists information specific to the arm, such as name, package name, version,
type of installation, and a description of the plugin.
Industrial I/O plugin
Link6 comes with the Industrial I/O plugin pre-installed.
The Industrial I/O plugin has tiles in the visual programming interface in KortexWebApp to
exchange information using pure electrical signals through cables connected to some other
piece of equipment. The equipment is connected to the general purpose and high speed
connectors in the controller.
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