>>> I am busy converting a Motorman 6-axis robot to Linuxcnc. The >>> original Yaskawa motors and servo drives are used. The motors are >>> all fitted with absolute encoders. The encoders have .............. >> > >> Hi Rudy > >> I know this is a while back, but did you get your robot working? > >> Roland > > Hi Roland > > Sort of, but not reliably. To read the first part of the serial data > containing the abs encoder positions was a real problem. I tried to > read the data in a hal-component, but it was not relaible. I got > side-tracked but hope to get a better solution someday. I suppose > there are better ways to do it . > > Rudy > > ******************************* > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >
> have been considering adding this capability to a variant of the normal >HostMot2 quadrature encoder. Basically adding a RX UART with a mode bit thats cleared ->on recieving the EOM character (CR?) that switches from UART to incremental mode. The >mode bit would be set via a hal pin. >Peter Wallace >Mesa Electronics This would be very useful. I have about 12 Yaskawa motors and drives on 2 robots that I could make use of if I could make the absolute encoder data readable in Linuxcnc.. Rudy ****************************** _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
