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How to manage box sensor input ?

Context

This article present how to do input box sensor settings with the Robotiq palletizing solution.

Knowledge

First you have to connect the box sensor to controller I/O. You can for example choose to connect it to DI4.

Box sensor connections

In the installation menu you can rename the DI to make things more easy to understand. In this case the name is: "box_sensor"

rename_box_sensor

The settings of the box sensor is done on the palletizer node.

Enter the settings menu.

 

Select the box sensor DI in the pull down list "Box presence input".

select_box_sensor_input

Tip: You can use this feature to compensate if the box sensor is too far from the conveyor end stop. 


add_delay_between_box_detection

 

Box sensor input settings are now complete !