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System Design Procedure

To design a system for the cooperative control function, use the following procedures in order for smooth designing.

Procedure Description
(1) Selecting a robot controller The master controller must be a robot controller equipped with a high-specification CPU.
Safety signal wiring varies depending on the robot controller specification, such as Safety Motion specification or Safety-IO Less specification.
For details, refer to "Robot Controller Requirements and Safety Signal Wiring".
(2) Selecting a method of communicating between robot controllers Select Ethernet or Ethernet and EtherCAT for the method of communicating between robot controllers.
To use Ethernet and EtherCAT, an EtherCAT master board and an EtherCAT slave board are optionally required, but this option allows higher accuracy robot interlocking.
For details, refer to "Methods of Communicating between Robot Controllers".
(3) Selecting a method of communicating system I/O signals to the equipment management device

Select a method of communicating system I/O signals to the equipment management device (such as PLC).

Select Mini I/O or a field network (DeviceNet, CC-Link, etc.).

For details, refer to "Selecting a Method of Communicating System I/O Signals".
(4) Checking precautions on using the cooperative control function

When the cooperative control function is used, there are restrictions, such as disabling the use of some of other functions.

For details, refer to "Precautions for Use".

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