YASKAWA operation modes

[TRYPSIN]

YASKAWA EtherCAT manual mentioned the following operation modes, could anybody help to explain?

• Profile Position mode
• Homing mode
• Interpolated Position mode
• Profile Velocity mode
• Torque Profile mode
• Cyclic Sync Position mode
• Cyclic Sync Velocity mode
• Cyclic Sync Torque mode

[PalanivelThiruvenkadam]

Is your query related to LabVIEW?

[a_clucker · Accepted solution]

Hi TRYPSIN,

Those look like modes specific to the YASKAWA device and not EtherCAT in general. I would recommend contacting the company that created the manual you saw them in (probably YASKAWA).

[TRYPSIN]

I asked somebody familiar with servo motors, these modes are not YASKAWA specific, just general mode definition according to CiA protocol

[a_clucker]

So they're not commands specific to EtherCAT or YASKAWA.

But possibly specific to CAN in Automation.

CiA would be a completely different (on all 7 levels) OSI stack as compared to EtherCAT, e.g. different cabling.