We are thrilled to announce the new release! This update brings a host of new features, RapidPlan 2.7 release focuses on performance improvements, and bug fixes designed to enhance your user experience and improve overall performance, especially for dynamic applications using ‘planning moves.

Indicates changes which have been reflected in the user guide

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RapidPlan Create Changes

• Auto-connect regeneration changes [behind a feature flag, discuss with RTR to enable this]

• New projects created in 2.6 will not include collidables, and projects created before 2.6 loaded on 2.6 will have collidables removed from the projectManual Routes no longer behind a feature flag

• Valid Auto-connects are not automatically regenerated during validation

• Performance Improvements in RPC.

  • Opening the Auto-connect dialog and switching tabs in the dialogs is now much faster.

  • Responsiveness of the RPC canvas when selecting objects in the scene significantly improved.

  • Deleting, adding and updating manual connections, especially in large projects, is now much faster.

RapidPlan Control Changes

Communication

ASCII API

• Added “IsOnTarget” command

• Enabled Planning Moves to be sent to a joint_config, previously user could only do Planning Moves to target/pose

• Added roadmap_mode parameter for “shortest move” feature

• Added support for motion recording commands

• Added support for Routes

Profinet

• Display loaded project ID in controller input status

• Reference frame added to GetRobotTCP

• Additional logging for Profinet commands (see CP notes below)

Ethernet/IP

• [Feature flag] Available for test only. Please reach out to RTR for more information if interested.

Control Panel

• Control panel history tab now shows Profinet command and response history

• Added a status bar to the canvas to display relevant information including camera position and details on selection modes for targets, robots and edges. User can edit camera position (XYZ) from the status bar.

• Removed warning for firefox users

• Joint dynamics, within advanced settings for a robot, has been overhauled. Unsaved data is now preserved when the user changes tabs. Dynamics configurations can be copied between presets.

• Move previews

Other RapidPlan Changes

• License changes, no user-facing changes

• Enable planning moves to config

• YAML “optimization” mode removed

• Backwards compatibility is now guaranteed between all previous versions (previously only supported for release versions)

Motion Planning Changes

• Added movement mode parameter “roadmap_mode” for users to define how roadmap moves to pose or joint config should use the roadmap to prioritize either shortest paths or minimizing off-roadmap moves

Robot Control Changes

• Added new section on support for ABB IRC5 Controller Configuration

Optimization Changes

Optimization in RapidPlan 2.6 is available for RTR internal users only

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User is now warned when leaving the opti dialogue before applying results

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PROFINET

• Significant latency reduction in 2.7 vs 2.6

Control Panel

• Support for RapidSense Robots UI, enabling users to be able to assign a robot and a target to a sensor for calibration

Motion Planning Changes

• move_type: planning will have decreased planning latency compared to 2.6, especially when using the DSM and tcp-constraints"