Omron Corporation

Yuto Yasui

Junji Shimamura

Masahiko Nakano

Tomonori Shimamura

Takafumi Okura

A controller includes a calculator, a generator, and an adjuster. The calculator calculates a correction value for a position command based on a transmission delay and a control delay included in outputting the position command from the controller to the slave axis drive. The transmission delay is a delay in transmitting the position command to the slave axis drive. The control delay is a delay in the slave axis drive. The generator generates a corrected position command by applying the correction value to a reference position command for the slave axis drive calculated using position information about the master axis drive. The adjuster adjusts, in a predetermined period from when a speed of the master axis drive changes, the correction value to be below a value calculated by the calculator to cause a position of the slave axis drive to avoid exceeding a position of the master axis drive.

Control device

A controller for performing synchronization control over the master axis and the slave axis to follow an electronic cam profile includes a reference position calculator that, in response to power being restored after a power disconnect, obtains a position of the master axis and calculates reference positions of the master axis and the slave axis based on the obtained position of the master axis, a position of the master axis at cam synchronization, and the electronic cam profile, and a return control unit that performs return control to determine a position of the slave axis corresponding to a current position of the master axis based on the current position of the master axis, the electronic cam profile, and the reference positions of the master axis and the slave axis calculated by the reference position calculator, and that moves the slave axis to the determined position.

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Kyoto, Japan

Yuto Yasui