Fanuc LabVIEW Library

🤖 Effortlessly Communicate with Fanuc robots

The Fanuc SDK enables seamless integration with Fanuc robots for automation, data exchange, and remote control. Ideal for industrial automation, research, and advanced robotics applications.

It allows you to connect to a real robot, but also to ROBOGUIDE.

🔗 More Information: https://underautomation.com/fanuc
🔗 Also available for 💻 .NET (C# / VB) & 🐍 Python

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Overview.of.LabVIEW.Library.for.Fanuc.mp4

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🚀 TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read)

• ✔️ PCDK / RobotIF Alternative: No need for Fanuc’s PCDK or Robot Interface
• 📖 Read/Write Variables: Access and modify system variables.
• 🔄 Register Control: Read/write registers for positions, numbers, and strings.
• 🎬 Program Control: Run, abort, and reset programs.
• 🔔 Alarm Management: Reset alarms and view alarm history.
• ⚡ I/O Control: Manage ports and I/O values (UI, UO, GI, GO, etc.).
• 🔍 State Monitoring: Get safety status, position, diagnostics, and more.
• 📂 File Management: Easily manipulate files.

No additional installations or Fanuc options are required to use this SDK.

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📥 Download Example Applications

Explore the Fanuc SDK with fully functional example applications for your LabVIEW version.

📌 Download: 📥 UnderAutomation.Fanuc.lvproj

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📌 Features

The library is a set of .vi files grouped under a library UnderAutomation.Fanuc.lvlib.

📌 Download: 📥 UnderAutomation.Fanuc.lvlib

🖧 Connect to the robot

ConnectToRobot.vi allows you to connect to the robot using its IP address. Booleans enable or disable connection via Telnet, FTP and SNPX protocols. Telnet also requires a password. For FTP, you need to enter the user and password. This VI returns an instance of the robot and of each protocol. These returned values are to be used as input to the VIs described below.

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🖥️ Remote Control via Telnet KCL

Telnet KCL allows you to send commands to a Fanuc robot, such as resetting alarms, writing variables, setting an IO, and more. This feature is natively available on all Fanuc robots without requiring any additional options.

To ensure that Telnet is available on your robot or your ROBOGUIDE project, please follow this guide:

↗️ Enable TELNET on your robot

Run

To run a program, you need the following conditions :

• Set $RMT_MASTER = 1 and $REMOTE_CFG.$REMOTE_TYPE=1 (you can use SetVariableValue.vi)
• Turn the TP switch to off
• Reset alarms

Pause

Continue

Hold

Abort

Abort all programs

Clear program

Get current position

Get variable value

Set variable value

Clear variables

Reset alarms

Set port

Simulate

Unsimulate

Unsimulate all

Telnet is connected

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📂 File & Variable Management via FTP Memory Access

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) provides access to internal controller files, as well as fast parsing and decoding, including .va variable files and .dg diagnostic files.

Get current position

Get IO states

Get safety status

Get all errors list

Get numeric registers

Get position registers

Get string registers

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🚀 High-Speed Data Exchange via SNPX (RobotIF)

SNPX (Also known as RobotIF, Robot Interface, or SRTP) allows for quick reading and writing of data on the robot.

TCP port Robot IF Server (by default 60008) should be accessible on your controller.

To enable SNPX on your robot, you need one of the following option :

• If R650 FRA params is selected (Option "FANUC America Corp." in "Advanced" tab of ROBOGUIDE "Worcell creation wizard - Step 7 Robot options"), R553 "HMI Device SNPX" is needed.
• If R651 FRL Params is selected (Option "FANUC Ltd." in this "Advanced" tab), no option is needed.

Get world position

Get user frame position

Read position register

Write position register

• Write cartesian position

• Write joints position

Read numeric register

Write numeric register

Read string register

Write string register

SNPX is connected

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📜✅ Register License

You have 30 days free trial. For a long term use, you need to buy a license (See pricing). Then, we will send you a license key and you will just have to specify it as input of RegisterLicense.vi.

This VI must be called every time the application is started. It authorizes the call to ConnectToRobot.vi without license errors.

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🔍 Compatibility

✅ Supported Robots: R-J3iB, R-30iA, R-30iB
✅ Operating Systems: Windows
✅ LabVIEW Versions: LV2010 and newer

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📢 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Feel free to:

• Report issues via GitHub Issues
• Submit pull requests with improvements
• Share feedback & feature requests

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📜 License

⚠️ This SDK requires a commercial license.
🔗 Learn more: UnderAutomation Licensing

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📬 Need Help?

If you have any questions or need support:

• 📖 Check the Docs: Documentation
• 📩 Contact Us: Support