Title :
Study of communication between VFP and Mitsubishi FX serial PLC
Author :
Zhang, Jinjiao ; Wu, Binfang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech. Eng., Hubei Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
This paper briefly introduces hardware connection, serial port settings, operation commands and control characters in the serial communication between computer and FX Programmable logic controller (PLC) programming port, and it also presents in detail the message format, operation address and communication program written by Visual FoxPro (VFP) during four operations such as Force ON, Force OFF, Read and Write.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; high level languages; network interfaces; object-oriented languages; programmable controllers; Mitsubishi FX serial PLC; VFP; Visual FoxPro; communication program; message format; operation address; operation command and control; programmable logic controller; serial communication; serial port; Centralized control; Command and control systems; Communication system control; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Distributed computing; Hardware; Industrial control; Paper technology; Programmable control; Communication; FX PLC; VFP;
Conference_Titel :
E-Health Networking, Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (EDT), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenzhen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5514-0
DOI :
10.1109/EDT.2010.5496605
