Creating a Collision Free Pathway

You can create a collision free pathway for a worker with the Generate Collision Free Path for Worker command.

Before you begin: Open a scenario with an assembly line that includes workers completing tasks.
See Also
Generating Pathways
  1. In the Setup section of the action bar, click the Generate Collision Free Path for Worker command to open the Collision free path generation dialog box.


    The Collision free path generation dialog box contains the following information:
    • Path details: This section lists the pathway that the command generated.
    • Collision environment: This section lists the context objects. When you hover over objects in the list, the command highlights them in the work area.
    • Picked Products: This section lists the objects carried by workers during the simulation. When you hover over products in the list, the command highlights them in the work area.
      Note: By default, the dialog box minimizes this section. You cannot expand this section until you have expanded both the Path details and the Collision environment sections of the dialog box.
  2. Click the Create new pathway command to create a new pathway.
  3. Click the Start Resource Zone tab and click a start resource zone from the work area or the tree, then do the same for the End Resource Zone.
    The resource zones are listed in the dialog box under Start Resource Zone and End Resource Zone.

    Note: You can add additional points that were deleted to modify the path, but these changes are overridden when you click Compute Path. After generating a path, you can click one of the selected resource zones to modify the planar position of the resource zone and snap the Robot into place.
  4. Click Compute Path.
    The path takes into account the resource zone positions.
  5. To remove a pathway, right-click the pathway and click Delete .
  6. Select an object in the Collision environment section of the dialog box.
    The dialog box highlights the selected object.
    Note: You can select multiple objects by holding Shift while selecting objects beside one another in the list, or Ctrl while selecting objects that are not next to each other.
  7. To remove an object from the collision environment, right-click the object and click Remove .
    You have removed the object from the list.
  8. Select a product in the Picked Products section of the dialog box.
    The dialog box highlights the selected product.
  9. Click Compute Path.
  10. Click OK to close the Collision free path generation dialog box.
    You have saved the pathway.
  11. To view the pathways, click the App Options command from the Tools section of the action bar.
  12. In the App Options dialog box that appears, click Display walk ways , then close the dialog box.
    The path is now visible and workers walking between the selected resource zones use this pathway during simulation. Workers also use this pathway during forward and reverse movement, unless you specified otherwise.

    Note: If one of the zones is already in collision with any object in the collision environment, then the command does not validate the path. In this case, an error message displays in the Collision free path generation dialog box beside the resource zone with collision.

    When you click the error message, a worker inside a cylinder appears at the resource zone with collision.

You have created a collision free pathway for a worker.