Control system and control apparatus
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsAkihiro Ishimura, Kojiro Baba, Taishi Kawaguchi, Norihiro Maekawa
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Abstract
A control system includes a control apparatus functioning as a master, and plural slaves which are network-connected to the control apparatus. The slaves each have identification information. The control apparatus includes executes a first instruction to set specified identification information to each of one or more specified slaves. The control apparatus outputs first error information indicating which slave that the setting of the identification information to which is failed, among the one or more specified slaves.
Claims16
A control system, comprising:
- a control apparatus, comprising a memory storing a program and a processor to execute the program, functioning as a master;
- and
- a plurality of slaves which are network-connected to the control apparatus, wherein
- the plurality of slaves each store identification information therein, and
- the program, when executed, causes the processor of the control apparatus to:
- execute a first instruction to set new identification information to each of one or more slaves specified from among the plurality of slaves;
- and
- output first error information indicating for which of the one or more specified slaves the setting of the new identification information has failed, based on a result of setting the new identification information to each of the one or more specified slaves.
A control apparatus, comprising a memory storing a program and a processor configured to execute the program, functioning as a master,
- wherein the program, when executed, causes processor of the control apparatus to:
- network-connect the control apparatus to a plurality of slaves, the plurality of slaves each storing identification information therein;
- execute a first instruction to set new identification information to each of one or more slaves, specified from among the plurality of slaves;
- and
- output first error information indicating for which of the one or more slaves the setting of the new identification information has failed, based on a result of setting the new identification information to each of the one or more specified slaves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.