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How can I communicate with RoboWorks in real time?

April 26, 2017Communicate roboworks

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How can I communicate with RoboWorks in real time?

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RoboWorks supports the RoboTalk mechanism for real time communication with an external program. When you build your 3D model in RoboWorks, you can assign names (know as tag names) to the various transformation nodes that RoboWorks supports. These tag names can then be used to communicate with RoboWorks. RoboTalk is based on TCP/IP and as such can be used on any platform that supports it. The source code for RoboTalk and details of the protocol will also be made available shortly. Currently RoboTalk is implemented for the Win32 platform and comes with RoboWorks. It consists of a programming interface that implements the communication protocol and also the TCP/IP software. This interface is available as a Windows DLL. You can call this DLL from your programming environment to get real-time control of the RoboWorks model. A RoboTalk example comes with the software.