MC_GrpReadActAcc

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 Function Block - Reads the actual acceleration of the group and the axes in the group.

  • See Coordinated Motion, the top-level topic for Coordinated Motion.
  • See Function Blocks - General Rules about how inputs and outputs work.
  • The MC_GrpReadActAcc function block fills the array specified by the Acceleration argument with the actual acceleration of the system in the coordinate system specified by the CoordSystem argument.
    • The measured path acceleration is calculated and reported via the PathAcceleration output.
  • This function or function block does not generate any motion.


    • The actual acceleration is smoothed over the last 10 samples.

      This reduces the error in acceleration estimation but introduces a small amount of phase delay in the reported accelerations.
    • Only the ACS coordinate system is supported.
      See Coordinate Systems.

  • There is a one-to-one correspondence between the axes in AxesGroup and the acceleration values in the Acceleration array.
  • If an index in AxesGroup is unassigned, the acceleration value for that array element in the Acceleration array is 0 (zero).
  • If the element does contain an axis, the Acceleration element is filled with the current actual acceleration for that axis.
    • This is an example of how this works:

Inputs

Input

Data Type

See Data Types.

Range

Unit

Default

Description

Enable

BOOL

FALSE, TRUE

N/A

No default

If TRUE, this function block reads the current actual acceleration of the group and the axes in the group.

AxesGroup

AXES_GROUP_REF

No range

N/A

No default

The axes group the actual acceleration is read from.

CoordSystem

SINT

Enumerated

N/A

No default

  • The coordinate system used when reading the actual acceleration.
  • One of these enumeration values:

Value

Description

CS_ACS

Axes Coordinate System

CS_MCS

Machine Coordinate System

CS_PCS

Product Coordinate System

Acceleration

LREAL[ ]

Dimension: The number of axes mapped in the AxesGroup.

No range

User units / sec2

No default

An array where the acceleration data is written.

  • The length of the array must equal the maximum number of axes allowed in the group.
  • The maximum number of axes is an argument to the MC_CreateAxesGrp function block used to create axes groups.

Outputs

Output

Data Type

See Data Types.

Range

Unit

Description

Valid

BOOL

FALSE, TRUE

N/A

If TRUE, the accelerations have been read without error.

Error

BOOL

FALSE, TRUE

N/A

If TRUE, an error has occurred.

ErrorID

INT

Enumerated

N/A

PathAcceleration

LREAL

No range

User units / sec2

  • The current measured path acceleration of the group.
  • This is measured by taking the square root of the sum of the squared accelerations of each axis.

FBD Language Example

FFLD Language Example

IL Language Example

Not available.

ST Language Example

Inst_MC_GrpReadActAcc( DoRead, Group, CoordSys, AccList );

See Also