Dear Friends,
I had one query, In general robots like kuka, fanuc, abb etc, does the teach pendant has its independent CPU. If yes, then master is robot controller or teach pendant.
Your thoughts/suggestion are highly appreciable.
Regards
Sachin
Dear Friends,
I had one query, In general robots like kuka, fanuc, abb etc, does the teach pendant has its independent CPU. If yes, then master is robot controller or teach pendant.
Your thoughts/suggestion are highly appreciable.
Regards
Sachin
Varies. Before the KRC4, KUKA pendants were no more than a long-distance VGA monitor and keyboard, with some added hard-wired safety items (E-Stop, mode select, etc). The only CPU(s) was in the main cabinet. The KRC4 SmartPad is an entire separate (small) computer, running a trimmed-down version of Windows and acting as a Remote Desktop client to the primary Windows host running on the main cabinet CPU.
Most other brands that I'm familiar with have had some degree of separate CPU in the pendants, although the size and sophistication of said CPUs varied over time and between brands.
Thanks SkyeFire,
That means Teach pendant is master and Robot controller will act as slave.
Please correct me if i have misunderstood.
Regards
Sachin
I'm... not sure that terminology is applicable. The main processor resides in the cabinet, and the pendant acts mostly as a simple "terminal" attached to it. So it's more of a client/server model.