About Providers

What are Providers?

With the RC8 series robot controller, ORiN2-compliant add-ins are used, enabling external devices to be used with a common interface specification. These add-ins are known as Providers. To control the generation and/or delete of a provider, use Cao object or gCao object, which are embedded object.

What is ORiN2?

ORiN stands for "Open Resource interface for the Network" or "Open Robot interface for the Network", and is standardized technology used to access equipment from application software. This technology is promoted by Japan's ORiN Forum for the popularization of ORiN2 and promotion of functional improvement activities. Refer to the ORiN Forum website for details.

Provider Types

The following providers can be used with the RC8 series robot controller.

Refer to the respective instruction manual of each provider for details of specifications and commands.

Refer to "Standard Use" for details on the description method for PacScript.

Note 1) Click the name of a user's manual to open the user's manual for each provider in PDF format.

Note 2) Manuals which with "(Sample)" are available to download samples from the Sample page.

Note 3) Providers that have a License lock require to enter a license key. For detailed information, see "Optional function and License".

Communication Specifications

With regard to the communication specification, refer to following documents.