| Title: | OS8-9 An EtherCAT battery test system |
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| Publication: | ICAROB2018 |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Pages: | 448-452 |
| ISSN: | 2188-7829 |
| DOI: | 10.5954/ICAROB.2018.OS8-9 |
| Author(s): | Chung-Wen Hung, Bo-Min Wang, Wen-Ting Hsu, Jhen-Gu Jiang |
| Publication Date: | February 2, 2018 |
| Keywords: | attery test system, EtherCAT, TwinCAT, Renesas EC-1 |
| Abstract: | A battery test system is a key equipment to ensure lifetime of batteries and portable device performance. On the other hand, because the real time requirement of the in industry 4.0, EtherCAT (EtherNet Control Automation Technology) communication is considered a standard interface of industry 4.0. The EtherCAT interface is based on Ethernet hardware, and with the advantages such as larger transmission bandwidth, shorter update time and minimization on synchronization time jitter. In order to upgrade battery test system competitiveness in the future, this paper proposed an EtherCAT interface for an original battery test system. The TwinCAT (The Windows Control and Automation Technology) environment Developed by Beckhoff is adopted to be the EtherCAT interface Master, and Renesas EC1 evaluation board is used as EtherCAT interface slave controller. The commands are sent to the battery test module through the RS485 interface from the EC-1 evaluation board. Finally, C# software is proposed to provide friendly GUI interface for user. |
| PDF File: | https://alife-robotics.co.jp/members2018/icarob/data/html/data/OS_pdf/OS8/OS8-9.pdf |
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