ABB_EGM_PYTHON - WINDOWS OS

This is my understanding and learnings on how to implement EGM in ABB robots using python as communication endpoint (Sensor/Server).
This can be used to implement real time operations on a robot and has limitless capabilities - all thanks to Abb EGM.
The purpose of this repository is to provide detailed start to end instruction on how to implement egm. Your welcome\

STEPS ARE AS GIVEN BELOW:

1. Install google protocol buffers :
   1 - Download latest windows release from assets section in here. (look for this -> protoc-3.17.3-win64.zip) or the latest one
   2 - Go to the extracted path and search for bin folder. Add this path to your system variable. (eg: C:\Protobuf\bin)
   3 - Also download protobuf-python-3.17.0.tar.gz or latest from the same link and search for setup.py\ 3 - Run setup.py in cmd -> This will get you installed the Protobuf compiler
   4 - Now do 'pip install google' and 'pip install protobuf'
   5 - Congrats!! you have succesfully installed protobuffer compilers\

2. Compile a proto file
   1 - You will have a proto file from abb - "egm.proto". We have to compile this into our preffered programming language ie, Python in this case.
   2 - To do that, use cmd to run the following command -> "protoc -I=$SRC_DIR --python_out=$DST_DIR $SRC_DIR/egm.proto" dont forget to provide destination target and source of your egm.proto file. If that is missed, current directory will be used as source and destination.
   3 - Now check the destination folder. you'll get the python compiled file "egm_pb2.py"
   4 - Congrats!! Your not far away now!

3. Python
   1 - Checkout python folder and open main.py. In this you will find a generic EGM class. Create an object of this class and change the parameters you want to control for the robot.
   2 - Bind the controller by opening a UPD channel in the robot controller, connect the laptop and send this through the UDP to the socket with the IP address of the controller.