Simulation on real robot

Simotion

I have now a project in robotstudio, that was based on program in real life.
I have added simulation to it so I run in virtual in robotstudio, while my IO-signals are simulated.
I would like to do a test on a real robot in our constrution room where I don't have several IO-signals as there will be onsite.
Is it possible to still use the simulation (or part of it) when working with the real robot?
Now for certain IO-signals I force them with the 'I/O Simulator' (I toggle them 1->0 or 0->1 with a mouseclick), will I still be able to do that?
Also I have simulation of palletizing proces : I pick up boxes with my grippertool and place them on the pallet, this is build on the example in
the ABB tutorials. For that I have to start the simulation with the 'play' button, will I still be able to use that simulation?

John Wiberg

Hi Simotion,

In manual mode when running the program you usually get a prompt to "sim" an IO input when its executing a WaitIO.

However I notice that you say that you don't have the IOsignals there. If you mean the IO boards or somesuch then you will get a failure when loading the EIO.CFG file. If that is so then there is the possibility to have the IO unit type as virtual and the signals as simulated (during comissioning - make sure to switch when deploying for real). See the IO manuals for examples etc.

However, none of the options above would give you a mouseclick on the signal type of behavior, for something like that you'd have to make a small PC SDK app.