A complete robot automation application cannot be realized by the robot alone. No matter what the application, the robot will always be more or less in contact with some other equipment. The communication between devices in the field is most commonly used for IO wiring or IO bus. IO wiring is of course the input of one device connected to the output of another device. It is simple and crude, but the way of IO wiring in complex application scenarios is not enough. Use the bus when there are many signals and the real-time requirements of the signal are high. IO communication is more cost-effective. The ABB robot supports the mainstream bus-type IO communication method, which can easily make the robot communicate with other robots or other devices. Configuring communication is actually a process of getting devices to understand each other, and the establishment of understanding requires the use of the robot's "GSD" file. So this time we will take a look at how to obtain the GSD file of the robot and introduce the robot to other devices through the GSD file.
What is a GSD file
GSD file is also called "general device description file", which is used to describe and explain the attributes of a device. For example, information such as the manufacturer of the device, the name of the device, the software and hardware version number, the supported communication rate, and the monitoring interval. It is equivalent to telling other devices what I do and what functions I have. GSD files are usually used when configuring communication between devices.
Types of GSD files
There are three kinds of GSD files that we often see, namely "GSD" files, "GSDML" files and "EDS" files. Different files naturally have different functions.
The GSD file is the driver file of the PROFIBUS-DP product, which means that the GSD file is used to configure PROFIBUS communication.
GSDML file is a driver file for PROFINET products, that is to say, GSD file is used to configure PROFINET products.
EDS file is a driver file for CAN and DeviceNet products. It will be used when configuring CAN or DeviceNet communication
Knowing what GSD files are and the types of GSD files, let’s continue to see how to find the GSD files you need from RobotWare. There are two ways to obtain robot GSD files from RobotWare, one is through the teach pendant, and the other is through RobotStudio. Let's look at them in turn.
Obtain GSD file through robot teach pendant
Just find what you need and copy it from the robot with a USB flash drive. However, it is a little troublesome to copy with U disk, and sometimes there may not be robots around us. The next method does not require either a USB flash drive or a robot, which is very convenient. Let's look down.
Obtain the robot GSD file through RobotStudio
The steps are as follows, directly on the animation.
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