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User Guide

Every motion control moves the real robot

Unless Robot Control is in simulation, shown by the Simulation badge in the status bar, every motion control moves the real robot. The robot moves only while a button is held and stops as soon as it is released. This does not replace the safety equipment of your cell.

The dashboard with the status bar at the top, the 3D visualization on the left and a tabbed panel with Jogging and Pose Management on the right

Figure 1: The dashboard with the Pose Management tab open

The status bar in Figure 1 shows the robot state and its controls, see Robot status and controls. Below it sits one panel per enabled widget: 3D Visualization, Jogging and Pose Management. Jogging is always there, the other two depend on the configuration. The menu at the top right of the header (Figure 2) switches between light and dark mode and turns the advanced view on, which shows more detail such as the robot limits. The choice is kept per browser and also applies to the visualization.

The dashboard with the app menu open under the top right corner of the header: a Light and Dark toggle under the heading Appearance, Light being selected, and an Advanced view switch with the hint that it shows more detail such as the robot limits

Figure 2: The app menu with the appearance and the advanced view

On small screens, Jogging and Pose Management share one panel and are switched with the tabs in its title bar. On large screens, at least 1000 px high and about 900 px wide, they are stacked next to the visualization instead, and on a narrow screen the visualization moves above the tabbed panel.

The expand icon at the right of a title bar (Open jogging page, Open poses page) opens the widget on a page of its own that fills the browser window. The status bar moves to the top of that page and can be collapsed to a single line with the arrow at its right end. Minimize brings you back to the dashboard. Open 3D visualization opens the visualization in a new browser tab, for example on a second screen.

When the browser loses the connection to voraus Robot UI, a No Connection notice covers the page until the browser has reconnected on its own. If it stays, see Troubleshooting.