How to access to a Linux terminal on Universal Robots

Introduction

This page explains how to run start a terminal on a Universal Robot. The following has been tested on an UR5, but should work on UR3 and UR7. The robot embeds a PC running under Linux. It is possible to access to the terminal in order to run bash or shell commands.

Switch to terminal

First, plug a keyboard into the robot and start the robot. Note that the keyboard default encoding is Danish.

Once the robot has boot, switch to a terminal thank to the following shortcut:

Ctrl-Alt-F1

The screen should switch to a Debian terminal. Enter the following login / password :

• login : root
• password : easybot

You are now running a terminal as root on the robot's PC.

Switch back to user interface

To return to the user interface, run the following command to log out from the root user :

exit

and swith to the graphical user interface with the following keyboard shortcut :

Ctrl-Alt-F7

See also

• Pedestral base for Universal Robot UR5

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