Hello everyone,
I'm quite new to the field of industrial robots. As a part of my research I'm working with Roboguide and Matlab. I have developed a Matlab image processing program which will output the real world XY co-ordinates of an object. Also I have read that it is possible to couple Matlab with actual controller via VB and Fanuc PCDK.
However, I'm wondering whether there is any chance to use these XY coordinates as inputs to the Roboguide, i.e. to get the Matlab output into Roboguide as an ActiveX object, a virtual serial port or anything else.
My initial idea was to use a virtual COM port as a bridge and read the values of the specific port by opening it using a KAREL program. However the idea doesn't seem to work. I believe I can only deal with ports provided in actual Fanuc controller using this method.
Any advise or suggestion would highly appreciated.
Cheers..!!
PS : I have bit of knowledge on VB, KAREL and TP programming. My actual controller is R-30iB Mate and robot is LR Mate 200iD.