ENGINEERING TOOL

• US 20140306642A1
• Filed: 06/26/2014
• Published: 10/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Inventors: KAKU, Yasuhiko, KOIKE, Haruhiko, KAMISHIO, Tomohiro, WATANABE, Kanji
• Application Number:
  US14/316,717
• Publication Number:
  US 20140306642A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/568.1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/409 characterised by using manual data input [MDI] or by using control panel, e.g. controlling functions with the panel; characterised by control panel details or by setting parameters G05B19/408, G05B19/4093 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 31/00 Arrangements for regulating or controlling electric motors not provided for in groups H02P1/00 - H02P5/00, H02P7/00 or H02P21/00 - H02P29/00

Abstract

An engineering tool includes a function that allows a user to perform, through a selection operation and a geometrical figure input operation, various motion-control-related setting operations for a motion controller configured to perform motion control on a motor via a motor driving apparatus. In response to input of a motion operation chart including a chronological and geometrical description from a user, a motion-and-sequence time chart to be referred to by the motion controller is created so as to allow a motor driving command for the motor driving apparatus to be chronologically output. The motion-and-sequence time chart is created by adding a command data sequence included in the motor driving command for the motor driving apparatus.

Claims

1. An engineering tool comprising:

a function that allows a user to perform, through a selection operation and a geometrical figure input operation, various motion-control-related setting operations for a motion controller configured to perform motion control on a motor via a motor driving apparatus.

2. The engineering tool according to claim 1, wherein in response to input of a motion operation chart including a chronological and geometrical description from a user, a motion time chart to be referred to by the motion controller is created so as to allow a motor driving command for the motor driving apparatus to be chronologically output.

3. The engineering tool according to claim 2, wherein the motion time chart is created by adding a command data sequence included in the motor driving command for the motor driving apparatus.

4. The engineering tool according to claim 2, wherein in response to input of a sequence operation chart including a chronological and geometrical description from a user, the motion time chart is created, the motion time chart including a sequence time chart which describes a coordinated relationship between motion control of the motor and a certain two-level input/output signal relating to the motion control of the motor.

5. The engineering tool according to claim 2, wherein the motion time chart supports a plurality of the motor driving apparatuses, and is created in accordance with a single operation schedule time, based on which progress is chronologically managed.

6. The engineering tool according to claim 5, wherein the operation schedule time is operable so that the progress is to be stopped under a certain condition.

7. The engineering tool according to claim 5, wherein an execution order, the number of repetitions, and a conditional branch in the motion controller are settable for a plurality of the motion time charts each of which is individually created on the basis of the corresponding operation schedule time.

8. The engineering tool according to claim 1, wherein in response to a selection operation from a user, the motor is to be driven in real time via the motion controller and the motor driving apparatus.

9. The engineering tool according to claim 4, wherein in response to a selection operation from a user, a destination to which or from which the certain two-level input/output signal relating to the motion control of the motor is to be input or output is virtually set.

10. The engineering tool according to claim 1, wherein in response to a selection operation from a user, a setting regarding a network connection between a setting device in which the engineering tool is executed and the motion controller is switched.