MIMIC

TRAINING KIT

Advanced
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Introduction 2

Adding Nodes 3

Example 4

Practice 7
Mimic Training Guide: Advanced

This guide builds on the knowledge gained from the Mimic

Training Guide: Intermediate and the Mimic Training Guide:
Beginner. We recommend that you finish the intermediate guide
and train using all of the Mimic training cards, before proceeding
to this guide.

Congratulations! Understanding the key building blocks of

the Mimic software platform and the features you have been
introduced to in the different guides (beginners, intermediate)
enables you to solve automation challenges related to surface
treatment in a variety of applications.

There is only one more thing you need to know.

So far, we have been adding three nodes to each program. One for
recording, one for tuning, and one for playing. However, adding
as many nodes as you like in the same executed program is
possible. This will come in handy when working with organic
shapes of a more complex nature.

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Adding Several Nodes
Why?
The easy answer is: Because it gives you more control.
Making several recordings and adding them together makes the
recordings modular and thereby easier to modify. Furthermore, it
is only possible to record an entire program in one recording with
singularities.

Imagine that building a robot program is like a cake recipe, you add
milk, eggs, and flour, and combine it in a certain way until you have
a cake. It is the same for building a robot program. You may add
an edge recording, a top surface recording, and a recording for
a specific detail on your unit, combine them and end up with a
finished program.

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Adding Several Nodes
One Single Program
There is one golden rule to remember:
Each recording node requires a Mimic Play node for it to be executed.
Also, if you want to tune all the recordings, each recording needs a
designated Mimic Tune node.

Example
You are automating the sanding of a chair seat.
You want one recording for sanding the edge of the seat (1) and
one recording for sanding the top surface (2).

Your first recording, the edge recording, you name

“edgeChairSeat” in the Mimic Track node. The second recording,
the top surface recording, you name “topSurfaceChairSeat”, in a
separate Mimic Track node.
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After recording the edge of the chair seat, you want to adjust the
angle of the tool using a Mimic Tune node.

You select a MimicTune node and pick the edgeChairSeat in the

setup view, to let the program know that this tune is for the edge
recording. Then you start tuning until you are satisfied with the
result.

1 For the edgeChairSeat recording, you want to adjust the

angle of the tool using a Mimic Tune node. You pick the
edgeChairSeat in the setup view, to let the program know
that this tune is for the edge recording. Then you start tuning
until you are satisfied with the result.

2 For the topSurfaceChairSeat, you want to adjust the robot

speed to make it monotonous. You add a separate Tune
node, where topSurfaceChairSeat is selected in the setup
view, to let the program know that this tune is for the top
surface recording. Then you overwrite the robot speed for
the top surface recording.

1 2

v=50mm/s

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Once you have done the two recordings and the two tunings, you
add two Mimic Play nodes. First, you want to play the top surface
recording. Therefore, you select topSurfaceChairSeat in the setup
view. For the second Mimic Play node, you want to play the edge
recording. Therefore, you select the edgeChairSeat in the setup
view.

The program now consists of 6 nodes, with two recording-, two

tuning-, and two play nodes.

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Practice!
Now it is time to practice. Try adding as many Mimic Track and
Mimic Teach cards as you like. Also, add as many Mimic Tune
cards as you like. Remember that the Mimic Tune node is not a
necessity for each recording.

Tuning a recording is, however, what provides you with the best end
results.

When you feel like you got the hang of it, add differently shaped
objects or try working on a potential production unit.
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