Dave,

  I simply want axis to be able to utilize my scale feedback as actual
joint position.  Thats all.

Brian

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok...  I guess I don't understand what you are trying to do..  or what
> the issues are.
>
> I thought this was a control issue....that you want the control to
> compensate for backlash and possibly a screw that that has some pitch
> errors, and also close the position loop with
> some direct reading scales.
>
> If you want to put more DRO's on the screen you can do that with a PyVCP
> panel.
>
> I don't see how that fixes your control issue?
>
> Dave
>
> On 8/8/2010 11:41 AM, Brian wrote:
>> Andy,
>>
>>    You and I are now on the same page.  That is EXACTLY what I would
>> like to see.  It would be simple, and would solve all the other BS
>> that has been errantly discussed in this thread.
>>
>>    In addition to splitting the joint-pos-fb PIN as you mention, it
>> would be cool that add a PIN that has the joint-pos-err like the motor
>> position control does.  This would be helpful when running a dual loop
>> system.
>>
>>    I am not sure if just adding a pin to write to the DRO would get the
>> job done.  It definitely doesn't follow the model of reality.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Andy Pugh<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 8 August 2010 07:57, Brian<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>   In the HAL component axis, joint position and motor position are
>>>> thought of as separate concepts.  Joint position is related to motor
>>>> position through the compensation logic, but otherwise they are their
>>>> own entities.  This is good design, because in reality, joint position
>>>> and motor position are truly two different measurements.
>>>>
>>> Am I right in thinking that your request is basically that
>>> axis.N.joint-pos-fb should be read/write (or split into
>>> joint-pos-fb-in and joint-pos-fb-out?). Then what is displayed on the
>>> screen is the actual position from the scales?
>>> My impression is that you are happy with the current control scheme
>>> (open loop with screw compensation)
>>>
>>> > From what I can see from a cursory inspection of the code, I think
>>> that might not cause much difficulty.
>>>
>>> A less invasive way might be to persuade Axis to display the scale
>>> position, ie add pins to allow direct writing to the DRO display.
>>>
>>> --
>>> atp
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