My setup is a tracked mobile robot which needs to be controlled using a PLC. For numerous reasons, it is necessary to have a decentralized computing unit (e.g. located in the office) which sends the commands to the tracked robot. The computing unit runs on an industrial Soft-PLC (in our case "CODESYS Control WIN"). The basic idea is, that the decentralized unit does the heavy computing and the local unit is just a proxy (i.e. "Read Sensor Data and send it to decentralized unit" as well as "Get Controls from decentralized unit and send commands to ECUs")
Question is: How is it possible to do this kind of decentralized setup, i.e. How to route commands from local Codesys instance to decentralized unit?
My setup is a tracked mobile robot which needs to be controlled using a PLC. For numerous reasons, it is necessary to have a decentralized computing unit (e.g. located in the office) which sends the commands to the tracked robot. The computing unit runs on an industrial Soft-PLC (in our case "CODESYS Control WIN"). The basic idea is, that the decentralized unit does the heavy computing and the local unit is just a proxy (i.e. "Read Sensor Data and send it to decentralized unit" as well as "Get Controls from decentralized unit and send commands to ECUs")
Question is: How is it possible to do this kind of decentralized setup, i.e. How to route commands from local Codesys instance to decentralized unit?
Last edit: Dr. No 2021-07-08