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Node Guarding Protocol
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NODE GUARDING PROTOCOL
This protocol is used to detect remote errors in the network. Master can update status of slaves and
slaves can guard is master active.
Each NMT slave uses one remote COB for node guarding protocol. The NMT Master polls each NMT
slaves at regular time interval. This time interval is called guard time and may be different for each
NMT slave. The response of the NMT slave contains the state of that NMT slave. Slave start guarding
after one Node Guarding message was received from MNT master. After that if slave (=drive) don’t
receive any Node Guarding messages during “life time” it will generate “Fieldbus Fault”.
Vacon CanOpen option board has following items for guarding purposes:
Index
(HEX)
Sub-
Index
Name
Default
Min
Max
Type
Attr.
Descriptions
100C
00
Guard Time
1000
0
65535
u16
rw
This entry contains the guard time in
milli-seconds. It is 0, if not used.
Unit: ms
100D
00
Life Time Factor
2
0
255
u8
rw
The life time factor multiplied with the
guard time gives the life time for the
device. It is 0, if not used.
Default “life time” is 1000ms (Guard Time) * 2 (Life Time Factor) = 2 s
Example node quarding messages:
MASTER -> SLAVE (node id = 1)
Message
ID
Len
RTR
NMT (Node Guarding)
0x701
0
1
SLAVE RESPONSE (node id = 1)
Message
ID
Len
1
NMT (Node Guarding)
0x701
1
X
X =
bit7
0 / 1 (Toggle bit )
bit6…0
Slave state (esim. 5 operational)