Provides the interface for starting and stopping application programs. It also provides the ability to enable power, disable power, home the robot and adjust the overall system speed.

This panel provides the user with the ability to jog the robot under manual control. A dynamic display is available to show the current position of the robot in both world and joint coordinates. This panel also includes controls to enable power, disable power and home the robot.

If an application program launches a web dialog box to present or prompt for information, this selection will display the requested pop-up dialog window.

Communication

This panel provides information on the Ethernet IP configuration. For diagnostic purposes, the number of transactions and number of retries are displayed at the bottom of this panel.

This panel provides information on the COM1 serial port settings. This includes its baud rate, character size, stop bits, parity and hardware flow control configuration.

This function allows text commands that are normally entered locally via the COM1 line to be entered remotely over the Internet. Console command line processing operates in a plain text (non-graphical) mode and lacks elegance, but it does allow access to virtually all of the functions of the controller.

Local/Remote I/O

There are typically 12 standard digital inputs and 8 standard digital outputs that are built into the controller. This panel provides a display of the status of the standard digital I/O. It also provides the ability to toggle outputs states and force input states.

There are 64 soft (internal) DIO registers. These are general purpose registers that can be used by the application. This panel displays the register states and allows you to toggle them.

Some controllers include 2 analog inputs and 2 analog outputs. This panel provides a bar graph of the analog I/O values.

If the robot includes includes additional digital I/O signals for controlling end-of-arm tooling, this panel displays the status of this DIO and permits it to be modified.

This is a sample custom digital I/O panel. This panel illustrates how a custom I/O panel can be employed to more clearly display the state of the system for a specific application.

If the system includes additional digital I/O signals via remote I/O boards or networked slave controllers, these panels display the current state of this IO and permit their states to be modified.

System Information

This panel provides the user with details on the version and creation date of key hardware and software components.

This is an informational/diagnostic panel that displays operational statistics on a number of the key subsystems and device drivers within the system.  For example, it can show the current CPU / amplifier temperatures, memory / flash utilization, or Ethernet transactions.