Search
Menu
Home
Sources
About
Contacts
MECHATROLINK
MECHATROLINK
is an
open protocol
used for
industrial automation
, originally developed by
Yaskawa
and presently maintained by Mechatrolink Members
Association
.
Mechatrolink
protocol
has two major variants:
MECHATROLINK-II—Defines protocol
communication
schemes
through
serial link
equivalent
to
RS485
with a
maximum speed
of 10Mbit/s and
maximum
30
slave
nodes
.
MECHATROLINK-III—Defines protocol communication schemes over
Ethernet
with a maximum
speed
of 100Mbit/s and maximum
62
slave nodes.