Mechatronics Concept Designer > Assigning physical properties > Creating joints > Joint Jogger

Joint Jogger

Use the Joint Jogger command to manually animate a model to verify the joint types, set the starting and ending limits, and develop poses. You can type a numerical value or use a slider to jog basic joints like cylindrical, hinge, sliding, and screw joints independently, without running a full simulation.

When you use the Joint Jogger command, the following features are suppressed so you can control the joint independently:

Speed and position control actuators
Hydraulic and pneumatic actuators
Force and torque control actuators
Transport surfaces
Simulation commands
Gravity

What you can do with a joint jogger

When you define a joint jogger, you can:

Create multiple poses of the same model. To view the different poses in the graphics window, select each one in the Physics Navigator, under the Sensors and Actuators node. If you use multiple instances of a model in the same assembly, you can use a single joint jogger to create the same pose for each instance in that assembly.
Automatically generate operations for a selected joint chain, which you can use to develop motion sequences from the joint jogger testing.
Create a target CSYS for a selected rigid body to set the destination of a joint chain.

After you establish a joint jogger, you can initiate and monitor its signals during a simulation using the Sequence Editor, operations, and the execute and status runtime parameters.

You can view runtime parameters in the Runtime Inspector or use them in downstream commands, such as the Operation command. To monitor the activity of a joint jogger, you can view the status runtime parameter, including:

1 — Initial
2 — Running
3 — End

Where do I find it

Application: Mechatronics Concept Designer
Command: Joint Jogger

How do I

Test joint limits and create poses

Joint Jogger

What you can do with a joint jogger

Where do I find it

How do I

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