Agilent Technologies Bravo Platform User Manual page 58

Workflow
Bravo Platform User Guide
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Permit only one robot to operate on the Bravo deck at any given time. While an
external robot accesses the Bravo deck, the Bravo head moves to a specified safe
location and Bravo operations pause for the duration.
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Allow the Bravo robot and one or more external robots to operate on the Bravo
deck concurrently. For each external robot, you must specify the deck locations
that are not available (blocked) to the Bravo robot during concurrent operations.
This topic describes:
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"Workflow" on page 47
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"Planning the robot access locations" on page 48
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"Preventing concurrent operation during external robot access" on page 51
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"Allowing concurrent operations during external robot access" on page 52
Perform the following steps to configure an external robot's access on the Bravo deck.
This workflow assumes that you have already verified the Bravo Platform teachpoints.
Step For this task...
1 Carefully plan which deck
locations the external robots can
access and where the Bravo head
can be during the external robots'
access.
2 Ensure that the device file
specifies that the Bravo deck
locations are accessible by the
external robots.
3 In the Bravo profile, configure the
external robot access, and then
update and re-initialize the profile.
4 Set each external robot's
teachpoints at the appropriate
Bravo deck locations.
5 Perform a dry run at slow speed
to verify that there are no
potential hardware collisions.
Ensure that the emergency-stop
pendants are within easy reach in
case you need to abort a robot
movement.
2 Setting up the Bravo Platform
Configuring external robot access
See...
"Planning the robot access locations"
on page 48
"Creating or adding a Bravo device" on
page 19
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"Preventing concurrent operation
during external robot access" on
page 51
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"Allowing concurrent operations
during external robot access" on
page 52
Relevant user documentation, such as
the BenchCel Microplate Handler User
Guide.
"About performing mock runs" on
page 58
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