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Figure 1 Position vs Time (msec) Motion 1
Example
Motion 2:
The previous step showed the plot if the motion continued all the way to 5000, however partway
through the motion, the object that was being tracked changed direction, so the host program
determined that the actual target position should be 2000 cts at that time. Figure 2 shows what the
position profile would look like if the move was allowed to complete to 2000 cts. The position was
modified when the robot was at a position of 4200 cts. Note that the robot actually travels to a distance
of almost 5000 cts before it turns around. This is a function of the deceleration rate set by the DC
command. When a direction change is commanded, the controller decelerates at the rate specified by
the DC command. The controller then ramps the velocity in up to the value set with SP in the opposite
direction traveling to the new specified absolute position. In figure 3 the velocity profile is triangular
because the controller doesn’t have sufficient time to reach the set speed of 50000 cts/sec before it is
commanded to change direction.
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