From r2022x FD04,  a new functionality determines the energy consumed by a robot or by any mechanism for performing a given task. Users can make changes to their robot tasks and analyze how their changes impact the energy usage of the robot.

Highlights

• The function provides a new command ‘Dynamics Attributes’ to enter values for the dynamic attributes of the robot/robot links. These parameters as mass, inertia and center of gravity parameters can also be calculated automatically.
• Data Readout panel will display the instantaneous and cumulative energies consumed by a robot as well by each of the robot joints during a simulation.
• The data readout probe will also support logging, graphing and export the energy consumption computation results.
• This command is available for all robotics and simulation roles.

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Take time to watch this short video demonstrating this enhancement.