Industrial Strength Fieldbus: Now available for Robots
Connect laptops, workstations or server farms directly to your hardware. In real time.
FEATURES
Real Time Control
RoNeX sends and receives data packets 1,000 times a second, consistently, all the time. This means your control system never has to wait more than a millisecond for an update.
Native ROS Support (& MATLAB!)
Install RoNeX drivers for ROS with a single command and start using RoNeX in minutes. MATLAB supports ROS, so you can also use RoNeX with MATLAB.
Flexible & Scalable
Need more I/O channels? Or sense and control a variety of hardware? RoNeX is a family of devices based on a flexible field bus technology allowing great flexibility of topologies and connectivity.
TECHNOLOGY
A Platform for ROS
RoNeX has been designed from the ground up to be plug & play compatible with ROS. Simply plug a RoNeX stack into an Ethernet port,load the drivers and you’re good to go. You can even use RoNeX with MATLAB.
Industrial Strength FieldBus
With EtherCAT all data packets are guaranteed to arrive every millisecond. No collisions, no jitter. Perfect for ROS and real time systems. Did we mention RoNeX provides 100Mbps bandwidth? No more sucking data through a straw!
Open Platform
RoNeX is an open platform. The drivers are open source and RoNeX users can re-program or hack Modules. We will be making this as easy as possible by providing example firmware and development kits. We want to foster a great community user and have a dedicated group here.
SPECIFICATIONS
RoNeX Bridge (In) Module
Connects a RoNeX Stack directly to the Ethernet port on your host PC. Supplies power for up to 5 Modules in one Stack.
RoNeX GIO Module
Connects up to 12 analogue sensors and 12 digital peripherals. All digital pins can be used for input, output or PWM.
RoNeX SPI Module
Four dedicated SPI ports, 6 digital I/O pins and 6 analogue pins. Digital channels can be used as SPI chip-select for a total of 10 SPI peripheralsconnected at the same time. All digital pins can also be used in PWM mode.