Concepts
Wandelbots NOVA’s operating system provides a hardware-agnostic abstraction over robot controllers from manufacturers such as ABB, FANUC, KUKA, UR, and Yaskawa. This chapter provides you with the concepts required to use Wandelbots NOVA.
If you’re new to robotics and automation or want to refresh on TCP, flange, degrees of freedom, joints and poses, coordinate systems, motion types, singularities, and other robotics primer material, start here.
Read about robotics terminology and concepts that Wandelbots NOVA assumes you know.
Where NOVA fits into automation and how the unified controller interface abstracts robot hardware.
The three-level hierarchy NOVA uses to structure a robot system: cells, controllers, and motion groups, together with the motion primitives executed against them.
How NOVA represents the physical environment with colliders, collision setups, and safety zones for collision-free trajectory planning.
How to constrain the orientation of the robot’s TCP during motion planning, for example to keep a cup upright or a vacuum gripper facing downwards.