AEM (Accelnet Plus EtherCAT Module)

Question 1

Control Modes

Answer 1

• Cyclic Synchronous Position-Velocity-Torque (CSP, CSV, CST)
• Indexer, Point-to-Point, PVT
• Camming, Gearing

Question 2

Command Interface

Answer 2

• CAN application layer over EtherCAT (CoE)
• ASCII and discrete I/O
• Stepper commands
• ±10V position/velocity/torque command
• PWM velocity/torque command
• Master encoder (Gearing/Camming)

Question 3

Communications

Answer 3

• EtherCAT
• RS-232

Question 4

Feedback

Answer 4

• Digital quad A/B encoder
  Analog sin/cos incremental
  Panasonic Incremental A Format
• SSI, EnDat, Absolute A
  Tamagawa & Panasonic Absolute A
  Sanyo Denki Absolute A,
  BiSS,BiSS
• Aux. encoder
• Digital Halls

Question 5

I/O

Answer 5

• Digital: 11 inputs, 6 outputs
• Analog: 1, 12-bit input