Mecademic Meca500 - 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Inside the box; 1.2. Overall description; 1.3. Applied standards

User Manual for the Meca500 Industrial Robot (for rmware 10.1) i
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................................................1
1.1. Inside the box ................................................................................................................................................ 1
1.2. Overall description .......................................................................................................................................2
1.3. Applied standards ......................................................................................................................................... 3
2. SAFETY ...........................................................................................................................................................4
2.1. Operating modes ..........................................................................................................................................5
2.2. Power supply unit (PSU) and safety .............................................................................................................6
2.2.1 Locking up the power supply ...................................................................................................................................7
2.3. Robot arm and safety ....................................................................................................................................8
2.3.1 Brakes and limitations .............................................................................................................................................8
2.3.2 Releasing the brakes .............................................................................................................................................10
2.3.3 Stopping times and distances ...............................................................................................................................10
2.3.4 Joint limits .............................................................................................................................................................11
2.3.5 Joint torque limits ..................................................................................................................................................11
2.3.6 Loss of Ethernet connection ..................................................................................................................................11
3. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ......................................................................................................................12
4. INSTALLING THE ROBOT SYSTEM ................................................................................................................16
5. OPERATING THE ROBOT ..............................................................................................................................18
5.1. First-time use .............................................................................................................................................18
5.1.1 D-Sub dongle (first time use and maintenance only) ...........................................................................................18
5.1.2 Configuring your Ethernet connection (first time use) .........................................................................................18
5.2. Power-up procedure ................................................................................................................................... 19
5.2.1 Powering the robot ................................................................................................................................................19
5.2.2 Connecting to the robot .........................................................................................................................................19
5.2.3 Changing the robot's network configuration (optional) ........................................................................................20
5.2.4 Activating and homing the robot ..........................................................................................................................21
5.2.5 Testing joint 6 ......................................................................................................................................................... 21
5.2.6 Moving the robot ....................................................................................................................................................21
5.2.7 Testing the E-STOP button and the brakes (first time use) ..................................................................................22
5.3. Power-off procedure ...................................................................................................................................23
5.3.1 Zeroing the robot joints .........................................................................................................................................23
5.3.2 Deactivating the robot ...........................................................................................................................................23
5.3.3 Disconnecting the robot.........................................................................................................................................23
5.3.4 Removing power ....................................................................................................................................................23
5.4. Robot control panel ....................................................................................................................................24
5.4.1 Buttons ...................................................................................................................................................................24
5.4.2 LEDs ....................................................................................................................................................................... 25
5.5. Offline mode (for demonstrations only) .....................................................................................................26
5.5.1 Saving the program via the web interface .............................................................................................................26
5.5.2 Running an offline program ..................................................................................................................................26