We are thrilled to announce the new release! This update brings a host of new features, improvements, and bug fixes designed to enhance your user experience and improve overall performance.

Indicates changes which have been reflected in the user guide

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 project

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

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

• Script is now available to update YAML for optimization by removing