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External Computer Communication <strong>RAPID</strong> Summary<br />

15 External Computer Communication<br />

The robot can be controlled from a superordinate computer. In this case, a special communications<br />

protocol is used to transfer information.<br />

15.1 Programming principles<br />

As a common communications protocol is used to transfer information from the robot<br />

to the computer and vice versa, the robot and computer can understand each other and<br />

no programming is required. The computer can, for example, change values in the program’s<br />

data without any programming having to be carried out (except for defining this<br />

data). Programming is only necessary when program-controlled information has to be<br />

sent from the robot to the superordinate computer.<br />

15.2 Sending a program-controlled message from the robot to a computer<br />

Instruction Used to:<br />

SCWrite 1<br />

Send a message to the superordinate computer<br />

1. Only if the robot is equipped with the option “RAP Serial Link”.<br />

3-38 <strong>RAPID</strong> Reference Manual

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