Manual, F/T Sensor, EtherCAT Axia
Document #9610-05-EtherCAT Axia-09
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Term
Definition
Power Cycle
When a user removes and then restores power to a device.
Resolution
The smallest change in load that can be measured.
Sample Rate
How fast the ADCs are sampling inside the unit.
SDO
Service Data Object, a protocol for reading and writing configuration
information acyclically.
Sense loads
The ATI F/T sensor detects sense loads that are a cumulation of forces and
torques acted upon the customer tooling.
Sensor
The component that converts a detected load into electrical signals.
SINT
Signed short integer (8 bit)
Status Bit
A unit of computer data sent from the ATI F/T sensor.
STRING
n
Sting of
n
characters
STRING(8)
A data type representing (8) characters, using (8) bytes.
STRING(30)
A data type representing (30) characters, using (30) bytes.
Tool Adapter Plate | TAP
The surface of the sensor that attaches to a fixed surface like an interface
plate or the customer tooling.
Torque
The measurement of force exerted on an object causing it to rotate.
Mathematically, torque is expressed as: Torque = Force x Moment Arm
Distance.
Transducer
Every transducer is also (or has) a sensor but every sensor isn’t a
transducer. A transducer is more than a sensor. It consists of a sensor/
actuator along with signal conditioning circuits.
T
xy
The resultant torque vector comprised of components T
x
and T
y
.
UDINT
A (32) bit data type representing an unsigned integer.
UINT
A (16) bit data type representing an unsigned integer.
USINT
An (8) bit data type representing an unsigned integer.
