[etherlab-users] Brushless DC Motor Controllers

[Sebastien BLANCHET]

Dear Dave,

There are (at least) two kinds of EtherCAT servo drives:

Type 1: CoE (CAN over EtherCAT)
for example: Kollmorgen AKD, Beckhoff AX2000 and Elmo GOLD families

Type 2: SoE (SERCOS over EtherCAT)
for example: Beckhoff AX5000 family

I think that both are difficult to learn because the documentation
is available only for TwinCAT.

---
sebastien

On 01/02/2014 09:11 PM, Dave Scheinman wrote:
> After much fumbling around I've successfully managed to get Etherlab up
> and running and talking to a Beckhoff EK1100 with some Digital and
> Analog I/O.  Ultimately I would like to use Ethercat to control some
> brushless motors.
>
> Companies like Advanced Motion Control and Elmo make Ethercat drives in
> the current/voltage range I am interested, but I am open to other
> suggestions.  Does the Etherlab community have a suggestion on which
> vendor's drives will provide the most seamless integration with Etherlab?
>
> The Beckhoff hardware has pre-made Simulink blocks provided with
> Etherlab but I am unclear how to go about creating these blocks for an
> arbitrary servo drive.  Is this documented somewhere?
>
> Thanks!
> ~dave
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