Standard Interface Communication

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After you learn basic concepts in Standard Interface Communication, complete standard interface communication tasks in the actual application deployment process based on your actual business requirements and your robot or PLC brand.

This manual describes only the communication tasks in the deployment process. For details of other tasks in the deployment process, see Application deployment documents.

Task	Description
Learn standard interface features	View the standard interface feature descriptions of your robot or PLC to make sure that the features meet your requirements.
Set up the standard interface communication	Make sure that the robot or PLC can communicate with the vision system.
Use standard interface commands to complete calibration	Establish the correspondence between camera and robot reference frames.
Write robot or PLC programs	View the standard interface commands for the robot or PLC, view example programs, and then write robot or PLC programs. These programs obtain the object information or robot motion path from the vision system and guide the robot to perform operations accordingly.

Task

Description

Learn standard interface features

View the standard interface feature descriptions of your robot or PLC to make sure that the features meet your requirements.

Set up the standard interface communication

Make sure that the robot or PLC can communicate with the vision system.

Use standard interface commands to complete calibration

Establish the correspondence between camera and robot reference frames.

Write robot or PLC programs

View the standard interface commands for the robot or PLC, view example programs, and then write robot or PLC programs. These programs obtain the object information or robot motion path from the vision system and guide the robot to perform operations accordingly.

Each robot or PLC brand may be supported or adapted by Standard Interface Communication in different ways. For more information, see Standard Interface Adaptation.
For the standard interface features, standard interface communication settings, calibration, standard interface commands and example programs of each robot or PLC brand, see the documents in the left-side navigation pane. For example, to view the preceding information of an ABB robot, see Set up Standard Interface Communication with ABB (RobotWare 6), ABB Calibration Program, ABB Standard Interface Functions, and ABB Example Program.
If your robot or PLC brand does not support Standard Interface Communication, please write your own standard interface commands based on the standard interface development manual.

Standard Interface Communication

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