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Figure 5.21. Using a TCT/IP socket connection to interface sensors to robot controllers

This concept, extended to offer higher level remote services from the robot
controller itself, was presented in Section 4.5.2, where a TCP/IP socket server was
designed to work as the prime interface with remote computers for commanding
and monitoring applications.

5.5 References

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