Robot Movement

Fix anything preventing your robots from moving

If your robots aren't moving when you start the system, make sure all the motors are hooked up properly to receive power and communication. Anvil's metrics (see System Metrics) provide invaluable debugging information, so you can narrow down where any issue may lie. Here are a couple example issues and their presentations:

Symptom
Presentation
Root Cause

One of the arms isn't moving at all

The "read" AND "write" rate is 0hz for all motors on the non-moving arm

The arm was plugged into the wrong USB port on the Anvil Devbox

The wrist on one of the arms isn't moving

The "read" CAN rate is 0hz for motors 6, 7, and 8

The cable in motor 6 has come loose

There is no image data

Instead of displaying 4 camera streams, the Web App reports that cameras "Failed to Load"

The cameras were plugged into the wrong USB ports on the Anvil Devbox

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