Appendix 3 Vision System Connection Function; Appendix 3.1 Overview - Mitsubishi Electric Melsec Q Series Programming Manual

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 3 Vision System Connection Function

APPENDIX 3.1 Overview

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The Cognex In-Sight
Motion CPU (Q173DSCPU/Q172DSCPU/Q173DCPU-S1/Q172DCPU-S1).
The vision system dedicated functions have been added to the Motion SFC program
making it easy to control the vision system from the Motion SFC program.
There are restrictions to the operating system software and programming software
versions when using the Cognex vision system connection function. (Refer to Section
1.3.)
Refer to the manual or help sections provided by Cognex for details on the In-Sight
vision system and Cognex vision system integrating tool In-Sight
The following terms are used to explain the vision system connection function.
Term
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In-Sight Explorer
Log on/Log off
PoE
Native mode
TCP/IP
Job (Vision program)
Load
Trigger
Vision system status
storage device
Program status storage
device
Image data
Read value
Spreadsheet
Tag
Ver.! : Refer to Section 1.3 for the software version that supports this function.
Ver.!
vision system can be connected to the PERIPHERAL I/F of the
Abbreviation for Cognex vision system integrating tool
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In-Sight Explorer (Version 4.3.0 or later).
Procedure to connect/disconnect the communication to the vision
system from the Motion CPU.
Abbreviation for Power over Ethernet. Method of supplying power via
an Ethernet cable.
Vision system's communication method used to control the vision
system from the Motion CPU.
One of vision system's communication protocol names.
Program that processes images in the vision system.
The process of developing a job file stored in the vision system into
the memory in the vision system, and making it an active job.
Start signal for acquiring images.
Device that stores the status of the vision system controlled by the
Motion CPU.
Device that stores the status of jobs controlled by the Motion CPU.
Various data created by the vision system's image process.
(Not images acquired by the trigger.)
Numeric data retrieved in addition to the image data.
A table (400 line  26 row) in which the job is written.
The program is created by writing the functions of various image
processes, etc., in each spreadsheet cell.
Symbolic tag associated with the spreadsheet cells.
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Explorer.
Description
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