scholarly journals Synchronization of Electrical Drives via EtherCAT Fieldbus Communication Modules

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 604
Author(s):  
Marcin Paprocki ◽  
Krystian Erwiński

Synchronization between devices (in particular drive systems) is paramount for multi-axis motion control systems used in Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) machines, robots, and specialized technology machines used in many areas of the manufacturing industry. EtherCAT is an Ethernet-based network that is one of the most popular industrial networks for multi-axis motion control systems. EtherCAT is standardized in the IEC 61158 and IEC 61784 standards. In the article, an EtherCAT communication network for electrical drives is presented. The article focuses on the synchronization in the EtherCAT network consisting of one master device and slave servo drive devices. Special attention is given to synchronization mechanisms in EtherCAT, such as distributed clocks in slave servo drives devices. For this purpose, a laboratory stand was built consisting of two prototype servo drive devices with BLDC motors equipped with EtherCAT communication modules. A description of the working developed EtherCAT communication modules is given. Authors in communication modules ware used an EtherCAT Slave Controller (ESC) chip (AX58100) to implement lower EtherCAT layers. EtherCAT application layer was implemented in software form on a 32-bit microcontroller, based on CANopen over EtherCAT (CoE) CAN in Automation 402 (CiA402) profile. This research’s main contribution was to show the time dependencies regarding synchronization in terms of data flow in the EtherCAT communication stack in slave servo drive devices. The research results showed that the synchronous operation of drives is mainly influenced not by the mechanism of distributed clocks that ensures synchronization in the EtherCAT network but the implementation of the highest layer of the communication stack in slave servo drive devices. Experimental results are presented that prove the modules’ adequacy for use in high-performance motion control systems.

2013 ◽  
Vol 721 ◽  
pp. 497-500
Author(s):  
Guo Jin Chen ◽  
Jing Ni ◽  
Ting Ting Liu ◽  
Ming Xu

Aiming at the lower performance, accuracy and efficiency of the existing motion control process for the traditional broaching machine, the paper studies the high-performance dual-hydraulic synchronous servo drive control technology. The synchronous electro-hydraulic servo system forms the closed loop control by the detection and feedback of the output quantity. It eliminates and restrains largely the influence of the adverse factors to obtain the high-precision synchronous driving performance. The numerical control system based on the real-time error compensation and the intelligent control to the auxiliary machinery is developed. It is used for the CNC broaching machine to make the steady-state synchronous displacement error of the double cylinders be ≤ 0.5mm.


1993 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.G. Harley ◽  
A.W.M. Hemme ◽  
D.C. Levy ◽  
M.R. Webster

2012 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 375-379
Author(s):  
Hong Zheng

Equipment manufacturing industry is an important factor to measure a country's comprehensive national strength. The servo control technology is one of the core technologies of numerical control systems and motion control, as well as an important part of the equipment manufacturing. This paper, on the basis of motion control, studies the development status of servo control home and abroad and analyzes in-depth the various components of the AC servo control system and the parameter confirmation of the controller. It discusses the approximate processing on control system and simplification of passing functions and uses the best second-order tuning to set the project for the current loop Pl adjustment device, simplifying the current loop into an inertia link.


2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz ◽  
Fortino Mendoza-Mondragón ◽  
Roberto A. Gómez-Loenzo ◽  
M. Agustín Martínez-Hernández ◽  
Victor H. Mucino

In this article a methodology for constructing a simple servo loop for motion control applications which is suitable for educational applications is presented. The entire hardware implementation is demonstrated, focusing on a microcontroller-based (μC) servo amplifier and a field programmable gate array-digital signal processor (FPGA-DSP) motion controller. A novel hybrid architecture-based digital stage is featured providing a low-cost servo drive and a high performance controller, which can be used as a basis for an industrial application. Communication between the computer and the controller is exploited in this project in order to perform a simultaneous adaptive servo tuning. The USB protocol has been put into operation in the user front-end because a high speed sampling frequency is required for the PC to acquire position feedback signals. A software interface is developed using educational software, enabling features not only limited to a motion profile but also the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) topology of the system. A classical proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID) is programmed on a DSP in order to ensure a proper tracking of the reference at both low and high speeds in a d.c. motor. Furthermore, certain blocks are embedded on an FPGA. As a result, three of the most important technologies in signal processing are featured, permitting engineering students to understand several concepts covered in theoretical courses.


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