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2 Installation

2.2 Prerequisites

Overview

This section describes the prerequisites for using Robot Reference Interface.

UDP/IP or TCP IP

Robot Reference Interface supports the communication over the standard IP

protocols UDP or TCP.

Recommendations

The delay in the overall communication mostly depends on the topology of the

employed network. In a switched network the transmission will be delayed due to

buffering of the messages in the switches. In a parallel network collisions with

multiple communication partners will lead to messages being resent.

Therefore we recommended using a dedicated Ethernet link between the external

system and the robot controller to provide the required performance for real-time

applications. Robot Reference Interface can be used to communicate with any

processor-based devices, that support IP via Ethernet and can serialize data into

XML format.

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