Elmo DSP 402 User Manual

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The purpose of the drive units is to connect axle controllers or other motion control 
products to the CAN bus. They usually receive configuration information via service data 
objects for I/O configurations, limit parameters for scaling, or application-specific 
parameters. At run time, data ban be obtained from the drive unit via the CAN bus either 
by polling or in event-driven mode (with properly-mapped TPDOs). 
The motion control products use process-data object mapping for real-time operation, 
which may be configured using service data objects (SDOs). This communication channel 
is used to interchange real-time data-like set-points or actual values such as position 
actual values. 
The most important part of a device profile is the object dictionary description. The 
object dictionary is essentially a grouping of objects accessible via the network in an 
ordered pre-defined fashion. The DSP 402 standard objects of single-axis drives, like the 
Harmonica, are all in the index range of 0x6000 to 0x67ff. 
1.2 
Abbreviations and Terms 
The following terms are used in this document: 
abs/rel 
Absolute and relative, which are indications of how to treat 
the position reference command in relation to the actual 
location. 
Elmo Composer 
An Elmo software application used for controller setup, 
application downloading and monitoring. 
Hexadecimal 
Numbers marked with either “h” (such as 1000h) or “0x” 
(such as 0x1000) refer to a hexadecimal value. Objects and 
numbers may appear in either form in different CAN 
documents. 
hm Homing 
mode 
ip 
Interpolated position mode 
Load position 
What the position sensor measures, expressed in position 
units (in contrast to position sensor increments). 
Non-volatile 
The object data may be saved to the flash memory of a 
device using the SV command, or by setting object 0x1010 
(sub1). 
Position sensor increments  Units measured by the load position sensor. The speed is 
derived from the position sensor. 
pp 
Profiled position mode 
tq 
Profiled torque mode 
pv 
Profiled velocity mode 
Reference 
Motion parameters can be specified in terms of 
meters/second for speed, or encoder counts for position. 
rfg 
The reference generator, which generates the trajectory for 
velocity mode only. 
CANopen DSP 402 Implementation Guide 
 
MAN-CAN402IG (Ver. 1.2)