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FANUC Robotics’ System r-30iA Mate Controller offers a very small size for the LR Mate 200iC robot. The controller provides an integrated 2D vision system to speed-up the installation of vision applications; this can be easily upgraded to provide a 3D vision system.

Communication Features R-30iA Mate

• Simple down- and upload of robot programs to server!
• PCMCIA interface inside the controller
• 1 serial interface connections (RS232C, RS422)
• FANUC I/O-link (slave or master)
• FANUC I/O unit model A (option)
• Ethernet (100 BaseTX)
• Fieldbus (optional)
• PROFIBUS (Master and slave, separated)
• DEVICENET (Master and slave, separated)
• CCLINK

I/O Features for R-30iA Mate
Input / Output (I/O) are electrical signals through which the robot can control grippers and other external tools. It is also needed for the communication with external machines (e.g. CNC machines) which the robot may load or unload.

• Available types of I/O
• DI/DO (digital)
• RI/RO at the robot arm (digital)
• GI/GO (grouped digital I/O)
• UI/UO (digital I/O for remote control by external PLC)
• AI/AO (analog)
• I/O setup can be separately backed up and restored using PCMCIA memory card

Fast Start-up
R-30iA Mate controller needs less than 1 minute to start (and even less with the basic software only).

In case of power failure:

• Robot program restarts much quicker than with any PC-based program (non-Windows operating system)
• The resume hot start function allows restarting safely and continuing production after power failure: no need to re-do the whole movement
• Unique resume tolerance check: in case of any program interruption, the robot automatically memorizes its position before failure. When the program continues, it checks whether the robot has been moved outside of a preset tolerance. This avoids unexpected movements and collisions
• Increased up-time (robot availability)

Safety Class 4
Safety Class 4 (EN 954-1) is offered with Dual Check Safety.

DCS consists of 2 I/O security channels running on 2 independent processors which mutually check each other. Dual Check Safety is the embedded safety conformed to European safety standards. Two processors monitor real position and velocity of servomotor for safety redundantly. The embedded safety provides conformance to the safety standards without any sacrifice on machine efficiency and cost.

Dual Check Safety in the robot has the following features:

• 2 channel safety inputs for FENCE, emergency stop, servo off
• 2 channel safety output for emergency stop
• Same safety inputs and outputs as R-J3iB and R-J3
• Safely cuts the servo motor power using magnetic contactors
• Safety classification according to EN 954-1 risk assessment class 4 (highest level as needed for manual press loading)