5th week

This week we are finishing the Program of the ABB robot, we are fixing the last bugs that we have, which are not few, to be able to pass the chec list correctly. We're just on time, but we think we're going to get it all over in time for this Friday. It all depends on whether the teachers help us with the doubts to go faster, since it is tedious to have to look for the manuals of the programs and the machine that we use, because some of it are old or it are in an illegible language.




This week what we've dedicated ourselves to was ending the challenge we're in. We have a few things left to finish, but this week it has to be all over to introduce it to the teachers on Thursday. We're a little nervous in case we don't get there to finish it and we're working the whole group to get it. Like all weeks we have to do the English blog to explain what we do during the week.






We have the ABB robot test this friday, i hope we can all pass it with ease, i've been tinkering with it for quite a while, i don't think it will be too hard to pass.
And we are making the final steps on the main project, being able to work with this robot has been such a nice experience, in my opinion this one is the go-to project, it is the most interesting one, and one of the most unique and new.





We're in the last week of the challenge. The Friday, we have the exam where we will have 2 parts: a practical part where we will have to use the robot ABB to move pieces from one side to another one, and the other part will be a written part of the camera and exercises of degrees and board positions. We hope that the work we have done shows what we have learned, it has been a tough challenge because it was something new and quite complex to use it. Between today and tomorrow we will review for the exam doing different exercises to see what we have learned.




In this last week we are making more use of the time, since at the beginning of the challenge we were more relaxed. This is the most important challenge of the whole year, as it is what we will find most tomorrow in the company. I think if we had made the most of the time from the start, we would have come to a better end of the challenge. 
Apart from the robot we have also been programming the camera, which is also very useful because in the company that my colleagues are using it.

4th week

We are still working in the ABB robotic arm, we are still having issues with it, due to malfunctions in the cable management. But we are giving our fullest to make this project on time.
I hope our score in the exam was good, so we can focus 100% on working, everyday we learn new things and I hope we don't stop learning. It is a very hard challenge, but teamwork always helps out on working.





















This week I personally had to pass the previous CHALLENGE exam while my colleagues were doing the challenge we are doing now, I have already addressed what the teachers asked me to pass the previous challenge and now I am helping my colleagues to move forward with the robot challenge, we have a few days left to finish and ns we have to put the batteries to arrive in time to the delivery of the challenge.



We're working with the cognex camera. The function of this camera is to take photos of the parts that the robot leaves in front of it. It has to detect the bad black pieces and good orange pieces. According to the color the black pieces will be taken to a rejection zone and the orange pieces will follow the cycle pass by cnc, the paint area, the drying area and then to the area of good pieces. It has become quite difficult because the camera has enough functions to perform this room of parts, so we didn't know which would be better to use.




This week one person of our group has been sick so they have lost part of this challenge, so we have had to work harder and distribute better the work. When he comes, we'll have to explain to him everything we've come through this week with the project. He was performing the "robotstudio" exercises the system where the rapid language of the robot ABB has to be programmed. We have to learn well how to use this program because the exam will have to do it using this tool.




The model we have is the irb 120. We've already started with the final program. Previously we started a simple program to know the characteristics of the robot. We are having problems with the robot as the shafts are not well aligned and does not go to its initial position. The robot program from the computer then i connect it to robot to give them some values

3rd week

In this week we have started the next challenge. In this challenge we start using a robot, in this case a robot of ABB company. We doesn't know how start to program this robot, in our group anybody never tought a robot. We have start doing exercise put in moodle but whe dont know how solve its, so whe need help of the teacher, and little by little we are pulling forward. We have to do a calendar for this challenge because we need optimize the time we spend in all things.





We are starting to get the hang of the ABB robot, it is such an amazing experience to be able to work with such technology, the learning process is effortless it`s all about using it, and only with that you are able to make such complex programs.
The Cognex camera is also so powerful, it can detect different colors and shapes, we haven't started with it yet, but I am eager to start using it to it`s full potential, the possibilities with this machine are almost infinite.





In this second challenge we have an industrial abb robot. We have to create our own program meeting the requirements of the model and apart we will add more things to have a great project. It consists of taking the piece on a tape, taking it to the camera to take a photo and depending on the part will make one process or another.Apart, we have to plan to put several sensors to identify whether or not the robot has a part in the suction cup.

Robot Features:
- It has 6 axes
- Works by a pneumatic group.
- Has a Windy
- Orange Card (rele... ect).

We believe that this challenge is the most interesting of all the course because it's something new for us that we have never used. The ABB robot is very important in today's industry because all companies use these this types of robots to handle their production elements.
And in the part of "Ikasempresa" this week we haven't started with anything new, we continue creating the first steps of our company, such as the positions of the workers, functions of each person, as we will promote the company etc...




This week I have to do an exercise of the previous challenge because I keep pending to finish it, it is very long and I am having a hard time doing the exercise, we have also changed the CHALLENGE and we are in the arm of the robot, it is new for the whole group and we have to be attentive to we can do everything the teachers ask us, hopefully this challenge will be better than the previous one and the mistakes we had we can improve them in this one.

2nd week

In this second week, we've given up the work well, as it was our last week of the challenge.
Some of us have completed some exercises that we had to deliver at the end of the challenge, with the "TIA PORTAL" program. Others have dedicated ourselves to finishing the challenge panel, as we have had some small flaws.We had to stay in the afternoons to finish the challenge, as it was not going to give us time, and so we took the opportunity to study for the challenge exam.

The exam we have done this week has been a little complicated, we used the TIA PORTAL to schedule and the exam we had to do the programming of a conveyor belt that moved boxes, once the exam was finished we had to teach the programming so that the teacher saw it, and then there was a written part in which we had to write the exercise data, the note we were told that they will give it to us throughout this week hopefully we will get lucky and approve the whole team. AUPA THE PROGRAMMERS!!!!!!




We finished this last challenge, tomorrow we will start with a new one, it's an ABB robotic hand, it has to distinguish some colors and depending in the color it has to place the pieces in different places.
We need to use coordinates and a new programming language similar to C++.
It's going to be very challenging, is something new and we are going to try our best, we have to aim higher than the last challenge.





In conclusion we have work harder in the next challenge because as the first challenge we have started more relaxed and we have taken it so calmly that we finnish just in time. We need to hold an emergency meeting to agree on how to organize the next challenge so as not to have the same problems and thus save time. I believe that if we organize well from the beginning we will be able to take everything up to date without problems, and when it comes to managing incidents, do it efficiently.




And on the part of "IKASEMPRESA" this week we have created a company called "NOVIMI" (Do Not Live with Fear) in Spanish. It is a company with which we will say goodbye to the keys to open doors of home, the portal etc... . From now on we want the access to these sites to be automatic either with voice or with our fingerprint. This system is very safe since there is no physical key you don't have to be afraid to lose it and they can steal you, hence the name of our company.
And what we've done is create the first steps of the company; like the name, the logo, the slogan and explain a little bit about which the company is based

1st week

Last week, we continued with the groupal project, it's been very challenging.

Some of us are focusing on the main project, meanwhile other members are working on the other parts of the project, like doing FOL work or even doing the excersices planned on moodle.

We hope we can end the project this week, so we have time to perfect the program, and do other various things, like installing the HMI.

The HMI is a touch-screen which we will use to display info.

Those of us who are with the part of the exercises that we have in moodle to deliver, we have connected two PLC'S to the two computers to advance faster in the challenge. Once the exercises are done, we need to explain to the partners how we have done so that when the test arrives, we all do it well. The PLC has 16 digital inputs, 16 digital outputs + analog inputs and outputs.
 On your computer we have a program called " TIA Portal V13, that we use to program the programs that send us. Then once programmed, we connect it by network to the PLC to simulate.






In the princial job we had many troubles like:
   - The wiring was messy.
   - Many of pneumatic tubes had leakes.
   - The engines does not work.
   - The program inside the automata was corrupt.
   - Most parts of the model were broken.
   - The HMI is impossible to connect with the TIAportal program.
   - The sensors wasnt detec how they should it.




To correct the errors that have arisen we have joined the group and we have started to talk to know how to correct them once we did that we have gone step by step to go correcting it also this Friday we have examination and we are a little nervous to see how we get , but we're confident we're going to do well. the model of the project is giving us problems but thanks to the team we were able to fix it. The following challenges we will try to improve and learn so that we can get better



On the part of "IKASEMPRESA" last week we went to a Iurreta school to an event that was organized for the students that these year are going to make a imaginary company in this asignature. There they explained to us what this project is based on and they taught us different projects that people had done.
The next week in class we have to create a company with an innovative idea that could come true later. Our group has decided to make a hands-free access system to enter to the portal or our own home. This system is effective for those times when we forget the keys or simply do not want to ger our hands on.