Kuka Pick and Place Arm not picking up the cylinder, even in demo mode

[PatrickMockridge]

The arm makes all the correct joint movements both in the demo and in my own code, but it is not picking up the cylinder. I have tried running the RoboND VM in different VM ware and virtual box I have repeatedly deleted and reinstalled and remade the environment. The scripts in my bashrc file are fine.

[PatrickMockridge]

[kylesf]

Can you please share the specs of your set up and what version of the VM you are using?

[PatrickMockridge]

Hi Kyle I am going to reinstall the VM with the very latest version and rebuild my pick and place project in the new VM. When I’ve run the demo I will update you as to how it went.

From: Kyle Stewart-Frantz notifications@github.com Reply-To: udacity/robotics-nanodegree-issues reply@reply.github.com Date: Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 16:45 To: udacity/robotics-nanodegree-issues robotics-nanodegree-issues@noreply.github.com Cc: Patrick Mockridge patrick@engzig.com, Author author@noreply.github.com Subject: Re: [udacity/robotics-nanodegree-issues] Kuka Pick and Place Arm not picking up the cylinder, even in demo mode (#168)

Can you please share the specs of your set up and what version of the VM you are using?

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[PatrickMockridge]

Hi Kyle,

I reinstalled the VM and set up Project 2 again from scratch. I’m sorry to report that I am still getting the same issues. The gripper is still not gripping the cylinder even in demo mode.

I’ve been around the block with this now so many times. What else can I do? I am sort of reaching my limit of patience.

Best,

Patrick

From: Patrick Mockridge patrick@engzig.com Date: Friday, 3 November 2017 at 19:34 To: udacity/robotics-nanodegree-issues reply@reply.github.com Subject: Re: [udacity/robotics-nanodegree-issues] Kuka Pick and Place Arm not picking up the cylinder, even in demo mode (#168)

Hi Kyle I am going to reinstall the VM with the very latest version and rebuild my pick and place project in the new VM. When I’ve run the demo I will update you as to how it went.

From: Kyle Stewart-Frantz notifications@github.com Reply-To: udacity/robotics-nanodegree-issues reply@reply.github.com Date: Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 16:45 To: udacity/robotics-nanodegree-issues robotics-nanodegree-issues@noreply.github.com Cc: Patrick Mockridge patrick@engzig.com, Author author@noreply.github.com Subject: Re: [udacity/robotics-nanodegree-issues] Kuka Pick and Place Arm not picking up the cylinder, even in demo mode (#168)

Can you please share the specs of your set up and what version of the VM you are using?

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[PatrickMockridge]

My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 510s running Ubuntu 16.04, 8GB RAM, core i5-7200U. My VM is set up in VMware Player version 14.0.0 with 3 cores and 6GB RAM assigned

[PatrickMockridge]

I just downloaded and reinstalled the latest version of the VM (2.1.0) tonight and reinstalled everything from scratch. Still the same issues.

[ancabilloni]

Hi @PatrickMockridge which option are you using for the robot routine? "Continue" or "Next". If you're using "Continue", can you try with "Next" for manually tell the robot move on to the next step after it's completely done with the action before it moves on to the next action? Sometimes an action moves quicker than it should and slip out in grabbing the object. Though this can be varied per many cases.