Robotics::Tecan - Control Tecan robotics hardware as Robotics module
See Robotics::Manual
Version 0.23
Start communication with the hardware.
Arguments are:
Returns: String containing hardware type and version from manufacturer "VERSION" output.
Will not attach to "BUSY" hardware unless override flag is given.
Function to compile a command to hardware Robotics device driver and send the command if attached to the hardware.
Park robotics motor arm (perhaps running calibration), based on the motor name (see 'move')
For parking roma-named arms, use the arguments: =item (optional) grip - gripper (hand) action for parking: "n" or false means unchanged grip (default), "p" for park the grip
For parking liha-named arms, use the arguments:
For parking Return status string. May take time to complete.
Grip robotics motor gripper hand, based on the motor name (see 'move').
For roma-named motors, the gripper hand motor name is the same as the arm motor name.
For roma-named motors, use the arguments: =item (optional) direction - "o" for hand open, or "c" for hand closed (default) =item (optional) distance - numeric, 60..140 mm (default: 110) =item (optional) speed - numeric, 0.1 .. 150 mm/s (default: 100) =item (optional) force - numeric when moving hand closed, 1 .. 249 (default: 40)
For pnp-named motors, use the arguments: =item (optional) direction - "o" for hand open/release tube, or "c" for hand closed/grip (default) =item (optional) distance - numeric, 7..28 mm (default: 16) =item (optional) speed - numeric (unused) =item (optional) force - numeric (unused)
Return status string. May take time to complete.
Move robotics motor arm, based on the case-insensitive motor name and given coordinates.
Note: The Gemini application asks the user for arm numbers 1,2,3... in the GUI application, whereas the robotics command language (and this Perl module) use arm numbers 0,1,2,.. The motors are named as follows:
For moving roma-named motors with Gemini-defined vectors, use the arguments:
For moving roma-named motors with Robotics::Tecan points (this module's custom software), use the arguments:
For moving pnp-named motors, use the arguments:
For moving temo-named motors, use the arguments:
For moving carousel-named motors, use the arguments:
Move robotics motor arm along predefined path, based on the case-insensitive motor name and given coordinates. See move.
Arguments:
Low level function to read commands from hardware.
End communication to the hardware.
Read hardware type. Return hardware type string (should always be "GENESIS").
Loads configuration data into memory.
Returns: 0 if success, 1 if file error, 2 if configuration error.
Read hardware status. Return status string.
Quickly initialize hardware for movement (perhaps running quick calibration). Return status string. May take time to complete.
Fully initialize hardware for movement (perhaps running calibration). Return status string. May take time to complete.
Robotics::Tecan internal hook for simulation and test. Not normally used.
Named pipes must be accessed as UNCs. This means that the computer name where the named pipe is running is a part of its name. Just like any UNC a share name must be specified. For named pipes the share name is pipe. Examples are:
\\machinename\pipe\My Named Pipe \\machinename\pipe\Test \\machinename\pipe\data\Logs\user_access.log
Notice how the third example makes use of an arbitrarly long path and that it has what appear to be subdirectories. Since a named pipe is not truly a part of the a disk based file system there is no need to create the data\logs subdirectories; they are simply part of the named pipes name. Also notice that the third example uses a file extension (.log). This extension does absolutely nothing and is (like the subdirectories) simply part of the named pipes name.
When a client process attempts to connect to a named pipe it must specify a full UNC. If, however, the named pipe is on the same computer as the client process then the machine name part of the UNC can be replaced with a dot "." as in:
\\.\pipe\My Named Pipe
Jonathan Cline, <jcline at ieee.org>
<jcline at ieee.org>
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-robotics at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Robotics. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-robotics at rt.cpan.org
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Robotics::Tecan
You can also look for information at:
RT: CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Robotics
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/Robotics
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Robotics
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Robotics/
Copyright 2009 Jonathan Cline.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
8 POD Errors
The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:
'=item' outside of any '=over'
You forgot a '=back' before '=head2'
To install Robotics, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Robotics
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Robotics
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.