PLC based servo motor controller

Hello, everyone, last year I finished my first 2dof project by the help of Xsimulator community, and after that I shared all the details in a domesitc social media of my country, lots of people showed interest and helped me to improve with their knowledge.

Servo motors are definitely a best power source for motion simulator, but there are not many affordable and easy to use interfaces available.
Luckily in my follower group, a guy from a PLC manufacture figured how to use his industrial Programmable Logic Controller that is compatible with simtools to run servo motors.

In this thread, I will share the most basic version that can run 4 motors(there are models that can run up to 10), and hopfully you can give some advises to let us make it better.

My SFX100 looklike rig and actuator build will be introduce in project thread later.

To see the functionality of the PLC please do watch the video below, sorry for my bad English.
I will explain if you wish to know more about this.
Thanks. BKai (aka SoftKitty)

Hi there,
I am also trying to use PLC to build my simulator, would you please tell me how did you communicate flypt to PLC?
I appreciate you if you can help me with that!

Best regards,

@SoftKitty can you please help me with this case?

Did anyone ever get an answer on how to communicate flypt to PLC from @SoftKitty? Did he share the code with anyone?

Thanks

are you controlling the servo drivers using voltages and direction pin ?

The code was developed with a friend of mine, at the moment we won't share it, it's on sale with the PLC controller in our country.
The purpose of this thread is letting people know this kind of solution exists.

I can answer the basic principle of communication: it uses serial port, almost the same with the SMC3 setup. The key is letting the PLC read the serial data and send into actions.

I'm using the pulse+dir mode. similar with thanos AMC controller.
the only difference is I'm using open collector wiring instead of differential wiring.

I'm new to allot of this stuff but I'm working on a plan for my own personal simulation platform.

So if I understand what you are stating here, your "Programmable Logic Controller that is compatible with simtools to run servo motors" is capable of working with the smaller 6 Axis Industrial Robot such as Kuka, Fanuc, and ABB?

Can you provide the website which sells your product so I can do more research?

Also can you provide pricing for your package? (I hope this isn't against the rule to ask)

Thanks

Yes, it's by which most of the servo motors are driven in industrial applications, PLC is like a drive signal generator for them.
The PLC I use is made by Samkoon, its coding lanuage is very similar to Siemens PLC.
I'm not sure about the rule either, I will PM you the price information.

I have a few of these Schneider LMC 20s. I'm willing to share some with anyone who can help with getting them up and running/communicating with Simtools.
thanks
Mark