Re: [Emc-users] Panasonic serial encoder interface

2021-10-22 Thread Chris Albertson
Just curious, what will this robot do when it is finished? On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:20 AM Ralph Stirling < ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu> wrote: > They are in a Denso robot, and the robot controller directly > reads the encoders. Several fpga's on the main board. We > don't have the big

Re: [Emc-users] Panasonic serial encoder interface

2021-10-22 Thread Ralph Stirling
They are in a Denso robot, and the robot controller directly reads the encoders. Several fpga's on the main board. We don't have the big cable that connects the controller to the arm, unfortunately, but may try to cobble together one channel to see if we can capture communication between the

[Emc-users] Panasonic serial encoder interface

2021-10-22 Thread Roland Jollivet
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Re: [Emc-users] Panasonic serial encoder interface

2021-10-22 Thread Todd Zuercher
Are you using the Panasonic servo drives that go with the motors and encoders? How are you commanding them? Depending on the command interface you may not need to deal with reading the encoders directly or even at all. The drives will do that for you and maybe even send out a position signal