Hello, friends.
Soon I'm going to do a job of preparing and just sending information from an ABB RW 6.xx robot to a remote computer via ethernet. I've never done this kind of work before. Does anyone have any specific literature and/or examples? Do I need any optional software for this? Thank you all.
Remote Computer
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Jose Henrique -
May 7, 2024 at 1:10 AM -
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Jose Henrique
May 7, 2024 at 1:15 AM Changed the title of the thread from “Remote control” to “Remote Computer”. -
what option do you have on robot controler,
NFS/FTP-client,Pc interface
what do you wish to do ,what data you need to send?
if you have nothing, you can create a log file on controler and read the file from computer in FTP
PROC WriteLogStringTest (string sStringaDati)
Open "HOME:"\File:= "DataSend.DOC", logfile\Append;
GetDateTime;
stringaWrite := sDateTime+ sStringaDati;
Write logfile, stringaWrite;
Close logfile;
ENDPROCWriteLogString " Hello:" + NumToStr(ProdCount,0);
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Hi Black, thanks for your help.
I have to send production data such as type of product selected, robot cycle time, etc. Simple information that I will prepare in rapid to send via Ethernet. -
Simple information that I will prepare in rapid to send via Ethernet.
"Ethernet" is a cable. There are more than a dozen completely different data protocols that can run over that cable -- EtherCat, Ethernet/IP, ProfiNet, Interbus, TCP/IP, ModBus, UDP, FTP, etc.
So: Which one do you want to use? Which one does your robot and remote computer support? Your question cannot be answered without specifying this first.
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thank you for reply...
I'll use ethrtnet IP.
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I'll use ethrtnet IP.
EIP? All right, ABBs support that well. But how will your remote computer support it? EIP is not a normal protocol for PCs -- it used to require special ethernet cards with licensed drivers for a PC to "talk" EIP, but these days there are some pure-software solutions (CodeSys being one example). There are also some open-source implementations like https://docs.pycomm3.dev/en/latest/
which I can't say much about, since I've never used it. -
Thanks SkyeFire!
I think I'll try use the group of "SOCKET" instructions, since I'll only send information from robot to a computer. Have you use these group of instruction for this purpose before?
thanks again.
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I don't think I ever used the Socket communications on an ABB, just the RS232. Which was a loooong time ago. Still, it seems to be well documented in the ABB manuals.
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Looooong time ago... I know what you mean,
. I'm into this also.
Thanks for your time! You take care.
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