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- Intelligent Station Management
- Station Realtime Cycles upto 500 usec
- Fixed and Varable Configuration
- IDN Management
- Line or Ring Topology
- High-/Low-Level interface
- Error Management
- Diagnostics
- Profile Management
- Phase Management
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Additional Tools |
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Sercos III configurator with diagnostics |
Typical Applications |
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- Assembly
- Packaging
- Sawing Applications
- Service
- Meassurement Applications
- Welding
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Video: Sercos III Simulator |
SERCOS III Master Library |
With the PC-based SERCOS III master for Windows, Sybera extends the program of realtime library software. The SERCOS III master fullfils
the requirements of the specification 1.1.2 and is realized like the other Sybera master libraries as an open programming system. In particular
it was taken care on the critical cycle timing of the SERCOS III protocol management. Together with the PC based SERCOS III master and the
X-Realtime engine there is no need of a separate SERCOS III controller hardware, because the master protocol handling is realized directly by
a PC hardware with standard Ethernet adapter(s), and with Sampling rates under 100 usec. By the extension of the realtime ethernet transport
layer (Ethernet Realtime Core) more than 70 standard ethernet adapters are supported. This allows a standard Ethernet card for a SERCOS III
controller upgrade. Basic for this is the SYBERA SERCOS III Realtime Master and the X-Realtime Technology. The software runs under Windows and
enables the control of SERCOS III device stations at real-time. Depending on the PC hardware and application, telegram update cycles
up to 500 microseconds can be realized. |
SERCOS III Master Functionality |
The SERCOS III master is offered by SYBERA as an open realtime library system and allows the developer the programming of a deterministic
control software for SERCOS III devices. The developer should have the possibility, to program control projects by easy interface functions
and should be able to realize graphical application in combination. As with the standard applications the developer must have the possibility
to realise the device initialisation and the logical connectivity by library functions. This is realized by an flexible IDN parametricing system.
Beyond that it must be ensured, that influence can be taken with the library functions also on complex procedures, like e.g. condition change
of the devices or error situations. The SERCOS protocol management, the error handling and device logistics are implemented in so called master
protocol stacks. The protocol stacks thus form the connection between the physical transport layer (e.g. ethernet driver) and the application
software. The objective of protocol stacks is alike with all systems: The developer of SERCOS III projects shall not care for the protocol
management, rather for the processing of the appropriate payload data of the linked stations. |
SERCOS III Master Technology |
The SERCOS III Master meets the requirements of Specification 1.1.2 and is like the other SYBERA master libraries
designed as an open programming system. In particular, it was taken care on the critical cycle timings of SERCOS III.
The system is based on four real-time tasks, for transmitting and receiving Ethernet frames, and functional processing.
With a state machine tasks are functionally synchronized. A real-time task detects frame errors and hardware latencies.
It checks whether a telegram sent, a corresponding response has been received (timeout), whether the Working Counter of
the response telegram is 0 and whether the index fields of the transmit and receive telegrams are matching. With a
frame filter the SERCOS III telegrams are separated from other Ethernet frames at real-time and transmitted to a
message stack. The developer, in this case has the opportunity to implement the functional processing (Realtime Level2)
inside a real-time task at system or application level. SYBERA uses inside the Master libraries a method called
"Dynamic Jitter Compensation", with active and passive feedback. Although the X-Realtime Engine of SYBERA works at a
low maximum jitter of about 15 microseconds (depending on the hardware platform), it concerns in Sampling mode by
system an additive jitter. For the unsynchronized communication with Industrial Ethernet components this is negligible
in most cases. However, to realize the control and synchronization of drive controllers, reducing the additive jitter,
as well as the dynamic drifts in the master library, was imperative. |
SERCOS III Master Life |
SYBERA offers the unique opportunity to experience the field bus system directly in the realtime simulator in
Holzgerlingen. The simulator unites digital and analogous sensors and actors in a complicated pneumatics machine. A
passenger's cell can be controlled with lift movements, rolling movements, pitching movements and rotary movements. To
the fieldbus modules connected devices enclose laser distance sensors, inductive sensors, pressure sensors, incremental
sensors, and valves, reflecting therefore the known sphere of the control technology. The passenger has the possibility
to change the parameters and to influence therefore the latency and jitter of the controlling system. The realtime
simulator helps all prospective customers to be able to estimate the field bus system for the industrial use. |