Are You sure that Your industrial PC is capable to communicate with the robot through Ethernet/IP (the industrial protocoal)?
Because Ehternet/IP is a little bit different from regular Ehternet (TCP/IP).
Are You sure that Your industrial PC is capable to communicate with the robot through Ethernet/IP (the industrial protocoal)?
Because Ehternet/IP is a little bit different from regular Ehternet (TCP/IP).
In the case Your PC can communicate with the robot through Ethernet/IP, I think things would be a little bit easier, since You could send basic information packages, like bits, bytes, and words, for example.
So, basically (and I'm writing this from memory) the PC would pick the measurements from the camera, and send it to the robot as big integer numbers. One for X, one for Y, and so on.
On robot side, You normally associate an input group for each coordinate.
After reading this information, You must make some calculations inside the robot, to convert Your big integer on a real number, check negative values, limits and this and that.
After You have the right values for Your coordinatrs, You can write them inside Robot Position Variables, or inside User Frames.
Hmm, good question. I am not quite sure, But I i have an plc which has an Ethernet/IP connection. Is it than still be possible?
But I can always look for an IPC which has
PLC probably have Ehternet/IP. i'm not so sure about the PC. But I would give it a check.