Installation and Commissioning

Technical specification3.11 CommunicationThe robot has two serial channels - one RS232 and one RS422 Full duplex - whichcan be used to communicate point to point with printers, terminals, computers andother equipment (see Figure 22).Figure 22 Serial point-to-point communication.The serial channels can be used at speeds of 300 to 19200 bit/s (max. 1 channel withspeed 19200 bit/s).For high speed and/or network communication, the robot can be equipped withEthernet interface (see Figure 23). Transmission rate is 10 Mbit/s.Figure 23 Serial network communication.Character-based or binary information can be transferred using RAPID instructions.This requires the option Advanced functions, see Product Specification RobotWare.In addition to the physical channels, a Robot Application Protocol (RAP) can be used.This requires either of the options FactoryWare Interface or RAP Communication, seeProduct Specification RobotWare.Product Specification IRB 1400 M98/BaseWare OS 3.1 41