Profinet

Profinet is the fieldbus interface through which a PLC talks to the Robot. RobCo provides a Profinet IO-Device implementation, intended for integration with Siemens TIA Portal, that publishes the Robot's state to a PLC program and accepts commands back — so a PLC can drive and observe the Robot without going through RobFlow itself.

This section is the Profinet user manual: it takes you from importing the GSDML file into TIA Portal through to a working, synchronized data exchange.

Device identity

Vendor ID

Field	Value
Name	RobCo GmbH
Decimal	1950
Hex	0x079E

Profinet protocol

• Profinet v2.45
  • Conformance Class A and B
  • Real Time Class 1
  • pure IO-Device (no Controller functionality)

Tested environments

The RobCo Profinet implementation is Siemens first at the moment, which means other PLC environments should work but are untested for now.

• Siemens TIA Portal V18 upd. 4 and Siemens TIA Portal V20 upd. 1
• PLC 1200 series and PLC 1500 series

What's in this section

The manual is split by what you are trying to do:

• Getting Started — the setup path, in order: wire up the Control Unit, get the device into TIA Portal, and confirm data is flowing. Start here.
• Concepts — what the pieces are: the RobCo_* datatypes, Profinet Variables, and the FB_RobCo_Controller function block.
• How-to Guides — individual tasks, each self-contained: importing the .udt files, defining and updating Profinet Variables, importing the function block.
• Reference — the lookup tables: input and output address offsets, the Flow and Movement Action enumerations, and the Robot system states.

note

TIA Portal menu paths are given in their English wording so they stay unambiguous regardless of the language your TIA Portal installation runs in.