Kollmorgen AKD communication with Labview Ethernet/IP drivers

[AgentAstronaut]

Hey mindmaster54,

While you may continue to post on this thread I suggest you create a new post if you want more visibility.

Regards,

Michael Bilyk

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[chad11]

Does anybody have a 2015 labView version?

[anon2016]

Hello,

I have to set up a system that uses the following Kollmorgen components:

Servomotor AKM24D-ANBNR-00
Drive AKD-P00306-NBCC-E000

Motor (AKM13C-AKCNGD00)

I am interested in creating with LabVIEW an application to control the motor by sending a speed profile. I read that NI has very expensive software to communicate with these drives. So I want to use a solution with a PC and modbus (via ethernet cable) communication method.

The only code that works to communicate with the drive is attached. I can read the "588" parameter and get the position of the motor. I went through the parameter list and they have 1760 instructions but I have no idea which one can make it move (write) hence I have no way of sending motion profiles!!! Any suggestions?

PS. I cannot get the codes mentioned in this thread to work!

[HizNI]

anon,

Have you considered using NI SoftMotion Lite for your application? It depends on what your application is, but here is a comparison of SoftMotion and SoftMotion Lite. http://www.ni.com/product-documentation/9414/en/

SoftMotion Lite does not have to be activated and can be obtained by downloading the SoftMotion trial version, and letting the trial period expire. 

-Michael H

[anon2016]

Thank you for the reply!

Can I use the Softmotion lite without a cRIO?

My application is very simple so I only need to send a waveform pattern to the motor.

[Reyquaza]

anon,

Depending on the size of motor you need, you may be able to just use an Ethernet Integrated Stepper Motor:

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/212821

[JPrendon]

hi friend, how did you manage to communicate AKD kollmorgen with labview?

I would pass my email so you could help me make the communication of akd kollmorgen with labview I would appreciate it very much paul.r.15@hotmail.com

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@JDavis644 escribió:

Thanks! I have looked into Modbus and the AKD drives do support this communication. I have since installed the Modbus library for Labview (http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/201711) and am going thru some of the tutorials. By going with Modbus, even though more simplistic, do you think I will be limited in communication/control options with my drive as compared to Ethernet/IP? Since both options (Modbus or Ethernet/IP) are going to be a learning curve for me, I would like to go with the best solution. Thanks for your time,

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[TimothyDug]

Hey JPrendon,

This post is a little old, so I would go ahead and make a new forum post to get more visibility on your issue, and you could link to this post for reference.

Regards,

[MCRUMPLER1287]

For those that want to use the Ethernet/IP add-on for LabVIEW (this is 2018), here is how:
The Instance numbers come from Appendix B of AKD EtherNetIP Communications Manual EN REV 20H.pdf