According to a report from Electronic Enthusiasts (by Li Ningyuan), in the current motion control field, bus technology and drive technology complement each other. In traditional motion control systems, the control methods are relatively singular. Generally, pulse or analog signals are used as control signals, which are sent to the motor driver, and then the … Read more
JZGKCHINA Industrial Control Technology Sharing Platform EtherCAT offers higher transmission efficiency and flexibility. After over a decade of development, EtherCAT technology has become one of the mainstream real-time Ethernet fieldbus technologies worldwide. At the same time, EtherCAT technology is fully open. Therefore, more and more devices, both domestically and internationally, are adopting EtherCAT as their … Read more
Click the above“Motion Assistant”, stay tuned for updates! This article takes the ZMC408CE motion controller with a dedicated handwheel interface from Motion Technology as an example to introduce the handwheel, its functions and principles, the wiring of the controller’s handwheel interface, and the configuration of the handwheel program. 01 Functions and Principles of the Handwheel … Read more
Click blue words to followServo and Motion Control The following video is sourced from the Zheng Motion Assistant Advanced Application of EtherCAT Bus Motion Controller In the previous section, we covered a quick introduction to the EtherCAT bus, including initialization, enabling, characteristics and switching of control modes, and basic settings. This section mainly focuses on … Read more
Set the public account as a star so you won’t miss the wonderful content! According to the votes from friends, the top-ranked PLC communication protocol that you most want to know about is still the EtherCAT bus communication protocol. The reason it ranks first will become clear through a series of articles introduced below. Results … Read more
In regular applications, KUKA robots, riveting equipment, laser welding, and other devices extensively use EtherCAT communication. Below, we will introduce it. 1. EtherCAT protocol processing is entirely done in hardware. The protocol ASIC can be flexibly configured. The process interface can be expanded from 1 bit to 64 kbyte. This allows Ethernet to connect directly … Read more
Click on the above“Motion Assistant”, stay updated with the latest developments! This article mainly introduces the configuration of the dynamic link library environment for motion control technology and the single-axis motion of the EtherCAT motion controller under ROS. Before we get started, let’s first understand the EtherCAT motion controllers ZMC432 and ZMC408CE from Motion Technology. … Read more
Click the blue text to follow Servo and Motion Control “ With the rapid development of China’s economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, the packaging machine industry has ushered in good development opportunities. The application range of pillow-type packaging machines in the industry is also becoming broader. These devices inherit the advantages of … Read more
Summarizing from practice, sharing in social circles, creating the most down-to-earth public account Abstract Occasionally, during production, the EtherCAT network may experience a complete Init situation, requiring power cycling or reactivating the configuration to recover. How to diagnose which slave caused the network crash and what the possible reasons are? This article describes: Reasons and … Read more
Technical Overview ///////////////// EtherCAT is a high-performance, low-cost, easy-to-apply, and topologically flexible industrial Ethernet technology. It was introduced to the market in 2003 and became an international standard in 2007. The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) promotes EtherCAT technology and is responsible for its continued research and development. EtherCAT is also an open technology: it allows … Read more