UR5e robot arm
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UR5e robot arm
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Superusers
- Ivan Penskiy (ipenskiy@umd.edu)
Overview
The lightweight, highly flexible, and collaborative UR5e industrial robot arm from Universal Robots is designed to automate repetitive and dangerous tasks with payloads of up to 11 lbs (5 kg). The UR5e flexible robot is ideal to optimize low-weight collaborative processes, such as picking, placing, and testing. This cobot arm has ±360-degree rotation on all wrist joints and can be controlled directly using the pendant and Polyscope software or using ROS (Robot Operating System).
Location
Brendan Iribe Center (Bldg. 432), room 0116.Physical specifications
| Maximum Reach | 850 mm |
| Degrees of Freedom | 6 |
| Maximum Payload (Including End Effector) | 5 kg |
| Pose Repeatability | +/− 0.03 mm |
Important documents and useful links
- UR5e manual
- UR5e technical details
- ROS tutorials
- ROS driver for UR arms and corresponding Gazebo packages
- UR development forum
- DH parameters
- Non Linux offline simulator
- Linux offline simulator
Reservation
UR5e must be reserved before using. The reservation is done using the Google calendar (TBD). Users will be able to reserve the equipment personally after attending the RML lab orientation and then getting trained on the equipment.
Video demonstration
The following videos demonstrate capabilities and the some aspects of operating the UR5e robot arm:Important reminders
- While this is designed as a human-safe robot, it is still a big robot that can do a lot of damage. Make sure the red emergency stop button is accessible at all times.
- Be generally careful when working with UR5e.
Operational procedures
TBD
Shutting down procedures
- Stop the ROS communication with the robot.
- Stop the programs running on the teaching pendant.
- Bring arms in the neutral position.
- Make sure the end effectors are not in the close vicinity to foreign objects (e.g. tables).
- Turn OFF the robot from the teaching pendant (menu in the bottom left corner).
- Turn OFF the controller box by pressing the power button on the teaching pendant.
Gaining access to equipment
Contact the lab manager (ipenskiy@umd.edu).