Real time communication problem

[nagmeshkumar]

I am using ST_ETHERNET to get robot data from the controller to an external PC. The application is up and running smoothly but I cannot capture the data real time. I have tried Wireshark but it  just contains the frame with the information.

The project requires capturing data and displaying it real time. MONITOR object cannot be used since I need 48 data channels.
Is there an xml file that I can parse? If there is a file that I can parse where is its location on a standard controller?

Any suggestions or alternatives?

[SkyeFire]

Hm.  Haven't used ST_ETHERNET myself yet, but I doubt it's sending an XML file per se -- the KRL-XML package sends/receives XML files in "lumps," but RSI should be streaming data continuously.  It may be streaming the data formatted with XML tags, but you should be able to determine that by looking at the wireshark output.

Now the bad news:  I suspect you'll have to create some sort of receiving program in something like C, C++, VB, etc on your remote PC.  I'm a bit surprised there's no example programs in the RSI Doc directory, or anything on the data format in the RSI Docs.

[mookie]

what are you doing with the data and what type of data are you trying to transmit?

[nagmeshkumar]

@Mookie:
Input is the data received from the controller to the remote PC which would be 6 channels of force and torque data, with 6 more channels for FTCorr data, 6 channels for XYZABC, 6 channels for axis angles, 6 for motor currents.(30 channels for now the next 18 are undetermined). I want to see at least the forces and torques(the first 6 channels) real time.

Output from the machine to the controller would be only axis angles to pathcorr so that the captured motion can be replayed.

@SkyeFire:

I can look at the output from wireshark but I cannot capture it and plot it realtime.
I asked the KUKA rep for a parser he would recommend and he gave me a sample C# file I will work with that for now.

Rest assured when I get the output I will tell it to you.

Thank you for your support!!!!