Posts by jrfall

Ah, that's good to know. Right now our bottle neck is rapid program pulling the joint angles and mapping them, which EGM gets around, but has other downsides for us. I was having a fit getting group outputs to work the way I wanted them to, so analog is a good shout, anyway.

I have an application where we have a task capturing the current joint position and spitting it out over a socket message, where we use it for monitoring robot position. I've been asked to investigate what options we'd have if we chose to do this over a fieldbus. Currently what I think is available from ABB is EGM, which we've investigated but have some qualms about, and isn't over a standard industrial fieldbus. Does anyone know how this could be done over EIP or Profi? The only options I see right now for that is to dump robot position to group outputs and then interpret those. Any other ideas around?

I have an application where we have a Karel program capturing the current joint position and spitting it out over a socket message, where we use it for monitoring robot position. I've been asked to investigate what options we'd have if we chose to do this over a fieldbus. Currently what I think is available from Fanuc is EDA or High speed Position Output (which I think is still using socket messaging). Are there other options I am missing? Are there equivalent options for Profinet (or Profibus, I'm quite unfamiliar with that whole family)

We did a reinstall of the EIP package and now have *some* communication, but are running up against SNN troubles. These are more familiar and I'm much more confident now.

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we don't see the robot in Linx, which leads me to think the issue is with something in the Kuka side setup. I'm leaning toward the KLI setup right now, as that is a bit of a mystery. We have virtual 5 set to static IP, Virtual 6 which is used for some UDP communication with a separate device. Virtual 5 is set as the Windows interface, and has some filters (which appear to be PROFINET related?). I think something here is the issue. Please see attached screen shot.

The resetting button is disabled, and reboots have been to no avail so far.

It is in fact on the robot

PLC Settings

And you'll see the KSS version info in post #5, but its 8.3.27

Input mapping

Output mapping

Ping to PLC

Ping to robot

Options

PLC Settings

KSS version

EIP version

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