What licence is needed to connect SRS2019 with external devices?

    Hi all,

    I saw a video with SRS communicating with Visual Components and it was made by VC, and focus on setting up a plugin on VC side. I'm wondering how to do the same but with software or hardware PLC (preferable Siemens). What licence or plugin I need from Staubli to do it?

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    The question is "What do you want realise ?", What type of Visual Component ?

    Visual Components was an example only. I would love to use VC for my own benefits, but financial controllers are thick like a wood that I gave up on trying to convince them.

    My main goal is to build a proof of concept for virtual commissioning of stand alone robot cell. Off course without a budget. :smiling_face:

    I have access to few OEM offline software packages and want to use combo of ROS and Gazebo or Unity with them to visualize the cell.

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    Hello mil3K,

    There is different connection ti communicate with a robot (Soket, Opc server or Ua, Fieldbus...)

    At the moment it doesn't matter that much to me the method of communication as long as it works.

    I know there is OPC/UA server licence as plugin for SRS, but following this route I would prefer to use client on SRS and connect to external OPC/UA server run on another device.

    Socket I never use it and don't understand how to use it, but one of my colleagues is very willing to write some "coupling gate" using APIs. I'm assuming that he would be willing to use it.

    Fieldbus, especially ProfiNet would be my choice as this is the protocol we use in most of our machines.

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    Can you give us the link to your video ?

    Have a nice day...

    Here is one of examples: Offline Programming Staubli CS8 with VC4.1

    Ok,I look the video.

    I think VC use Soap protocol between VC application and SRS (emulator) to know where is the robot and control the inputs and outputs. You need to ask to Stäubli services or to have a connection with the website to have the description of this protocol. In this case, you don't need other fieldbus.

    The second think is to create a visualisation of the robot in your software. You find on the website the file of each robot.

    We don't see, on the video, where and how is programming the val3 program. Same question for PLC program.

    I know that many developers are working on ROS module for Stäubli robots but I don't know if it's available.

    Have a nice day...

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