Posts by eusandre95

Thanks to everyone who provided replies! I really appreciate all of them!

pdl I like your solution! Seems to be very easy and suitable for what we need to do.

Let me try to recap what you are suggesting, to verify I understood your idea:

1. Connect an external PC to the robot controller via an ethernet cable.
2. Put the PC in the same subnet of the Robot controller.
3. Set $RMT_MASTER = 1.
4. In SETUP > HOST COMM > Telnet set password for KCL user.
5. Connect the PC using telnet and logging with credentials previously set on the robot.
6. Start a program using RUN KCL command. (like RUN <program name>)

Is my understanding correct?

Then, if this approach works, I should be able to put the telnet connection and the KCL command inside a script (like a Python script) and use it to do the same thing. Correct?

I have only a final question, do I need to have any specific software option from FANUC to be able to apply this idea?

Hello sborchshev and thank you for your reply.

Could you be more specific and provide more details about your answer? As I told I have almost no knowledge in automation robots so I'd be grateful if you can provide more explanation.

If you could also share links to websites or other resources from which I can get more information it would be great!

Hi Nation , thank you for your reply. I will try to give you more context about my situation.

I have to test a couple of sensors for detecting objects (like detecting obstacles or persons). So we have bought the FANUC robot and we designed brackets to mount these sensors on the robot end effector. Then we designed a couple of programs into the teach pendant made of a sequence of different robot position from which we will trigger the object detection from the sensor. So basically, each program is simply made of a sequence of "reach position" and "wait enough time for the sensor to detect object" and then move to the next position.

However we can forget for now about the sensors, to which we will interface with separate interfaces, and focus only on robot control.

So, basically, I simply need to trigger from an external PC the execution of a specific program stored in the robot. To reply to your question, I don't need to dynamically control the robot but simply triggering program execution. That's it.

Hope I have answered to your reply.

Hi everyone,

I have a FANUC CRX/20iAL and I'd like to write a script program to interface and control it. I am pretty familiar with programming (like C++, Python and so on) but I am very nooby with industrial robots :).

Basically my goal is to write a script to trigger program for the Robot from my PC. But I don't know from where to start to do this.

For example, how can I interface with the robot? Which communication protocol (like TCP or telnet or whatsoever)? And does Fanuc provide any sort of APIs to interface and control its robot? Which programming language should I use to make such a script?

I know this is very broad question but I'm struggling to find useful resources online so if you can direct me to the proper websites or you have any manual where I can learn this I would really appreciate.

Thanks in advance to anyone who will help me.