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It is possible the Autofib is losing its air supply . ICL will give an error 'failure to put down fibre'.  A quick check of this is described below.

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To solve this problem you will need the help of the duty engineer.  Before contacting the engineer, you can take the following check to identify if there is an air leak.

1. Firstly sleep the robot
• hh:mm:ss> afsleep
2. Wake the robot
• hh:mm:ss> afwake

3. As Autofib goes through the wake process, the gripper can be heard to open and close.  If the gripper can not be heard to open and close,  then there most likely an air leak.

At this stage Contact Duty Engineer.  Click to view the Duty Engineer Instructions

Created by Stephen Goodsell sjg@ing.iac.es Last updated 9/01