Hi Branislav,
Welcome to our community!
It is possible to communicate between B&R controllers and ABB robots (IRC5 or Omnicore). There are multiple options available using Ethernet. Here are some ideas:
- You could use OpcUa to communicate tags between the devices (this is probably the easiest)
- The B&R controller can act as an Ethernet/IP adapter using the AsEthIP library
- You could use ABB Robot Web Services to read status information and write commands from the B&R controller
I would recommend looking into the C-Series panels which are a controller and panel all-in-one. This would allow you to read data from the robot controller and display it on the panel with a mappView HMI.
Does this answer your question? If you’re able to talk a bit more about your use case we may be able to give you additional information.
Here are some other Community threads you can also reference: