Communication protocol joins up Smartmotor servos
Animatics
Combitronic communication protocol
Animatics' patent-pending Combitronic communication protocol uses a CAN serial port to join up to 120 Smartmotor servos so that any Smartmotor may read, write, or control any other Smartmotor.
The code to accomplish this involves tagging a local variable or command with a colon and the Smartmotor's CAN address.
All machine designs start with the decision between centralised control and distributed control.
Combitronic communication provides an invisible communication protocol that works between Smartmotor servos for data sharing and coordination while not interfering with Devicenet or CANopen communication coming from the PLC/HMI/master.
With Combitronic, no new fieldbus network has to be learned, so the user doesn't have to write a stitch of code for motor to motor specific communication.
Simply by addressing the Smartmotor servos in the program, a group of Smartmotor products becomes one multi-tasking, data-sharing, multi-axes machine with access to all motion, program, I/O and data functions of every other Smartmotor.
A group of only 10 Smartmotor integrated servos on a Combitronic network would have 20 communication ports and between 70 and 170 points of I/O.
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