Depending on how much or how little control you need between the two, I might not even hassle with the network interface and just use a few GPIOs to signal between the two, and maybe a remote desktop control for setup changes.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicklas Karlsson" <nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 4:04:55 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Suggestions wanted - how to control robot > > We have a surface grinder that is fitted with L-CNC and used as a > > creep-feed machine. We are using steppers with encoders on XYZ and > > rotary A. It works awesome and we are very pleased with the performance > > but will likely be putting servos on a second machine that we are > > beginning to build in an attempt to make it even better, but that is for > > another day. > > > > What I seek advice on, is adding a robot to load/unload work pieces in > > our existing machine. Specifically, can we or should we try to run an > > additional four or five axes from our existing controller? Pros and cons > > of having a second instance of L-CNC running the robot, and how to have > > one controller or the other slave? > > > > Can anyone point to examples of these or possibly other ideas? > > I would run a separate instance of LinuxCNC on the robot, rather than > try to run both the robot and the grinder off the same instance of LinuxCNC. > > I would put both LinuxCNC controllers on the network, and have them > communicate via TCP. When the grinder finishes a job it would execute > an M-code backed by a shell script > (http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/gcode/m-code.html#mcode:m100-m199), > and the script would contact the robot via the network and cause it to > run its "change parts" program. When the robot finishes that program it > tells the grinder, and the next cycle starts. Sounds perfectly reasonable for me to. Nicklas Karlsson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
