Robot and Communication Configuration

The vision system needs to establish communication with external devices (such as robots, PLCs, or host computers) to exchange data. RVS 2.0 supports the following two communication methods:

• Standard Interface Communication: External devices send commands, and the vision system receives and returns the results. The vision system responds to commands passively, so you need to write the external device program yourself to complete the communication interaction. The system supports two communication protocols: TCP Server and Siemens Snap7 Client.

  

  This section describes the configuration methods for standard interface communication. The table of contents is as follows:

  • Configure Standard Interface Communication
  • TCP Standard Command Description
  • Siemens PLC Snap7 Standard Command Description
  • Standard Interface Status Code List

• Adapter Communication: External devices send user-defined commands, and the vision system receives and returns the corresponding data. Both communication parties need to agree on the command format, so you need to write programs for both the vision system and the external device. You can use the Adapter generator to quickly generate the Adapter program on the vision system side.

  See also

  For detailed documentation about Adapter, see Adapter Generator.