Hi RobotForum!
I need to send my Kawasaki BX130X's live TCP coordinates to a Beckhoff PLC. I have the EtherCAT communications card installed and am successfully communicating with the PLC. Requirements:
-Max delay: 500ms
-Precision: +-1mm, +-0.1 degrees
My plan is to map the TCP coordinates to 75 IOs (2^13=8192 digits each to represent +- 3000mm for X,Y,Z axes and 2^12=4096 digits each to represent +- 180.0deg for OAT). I would update these IOs in a PC program running constantly in the background once the robot boots.
Before I spend too much time implementing this (I am relatively new to AS programming so it might take a few days), I'm wondering if anyone knows of any easier way to do this, or if you think that this plan is fundamentally flawed? I wasn't able to find any pre-built functions in the AS manual.
Many thanks,
Mykal