FERROR depends on Accelleration??

Can somebody tell me how axis*.ferror is calculated???
i have a setup with linear encoders and stepgen in velocity-mode, Pid is setup correctly and the system ist running fine & smooth...

Now i wanted to reduce the FERROR and MIN_FERROR to the lowest possible values but somethin strange happened:

With a LOW acceleration the initial FERROR (when the motors start to move) is really high, running the same Axis with an HIGH accelleration FERROR gets extremely small...

Can sb explain me WHY this happens???

regards, Thomas

Well, first i thought about backlash also, but: Backlash on this machine is alway the same... it does not care about acceleration or speed...

folowing some Halscopes:

Same Machine, nothing changed except max_accel

Well, i made 2 halscopes with the hostmot2 stepgen velocity-cmd & velocity-fb.

The frst scope was the scope with the maxaccel at a high value.
vel-cmd & vel-fb are nearly the same and ferror-lim is ramping similar...

The second scope was with the maxaccel at a low value. As you can see the velocity-fb is different from the velocity-cmd, thats ok cause the stepgen is accelerating..

I would expect the ferror-lim to be the same as the velocity-fb but it is NOT!

This ONLY happens with hostmot2 stepgen in velocity- mode.

regards, Thomas

Following the 2 halscopes...

This is the second one...

Isn't this exactly what you would expect to happen if you lower stepgen_maxaccel?
If the step generator is not allowed to accelerate as fast as the trajectories max_accel
you will get just what you have plotted here...

I did NOT lower the stepgen_maxaccel, i've lowered the AXIS max_accel
will try it tomorrow with another setup for TRAJ,STEGGEN Max_Accels and see what happens

What is interesting: Thought that TRAJ MAX_ACCEL has to be higher than the Joints MAX_ACCEL...
As i remember there has to be a overhead for STEPGEN & TRAJ MaxAccels... !?
So i set TRAJ.MAX_ACCEL somewhat higher than AXIS_MAXACCEL -> no change
Went back to TRAJ MAX_ACCEL < AXIS MAX_ACCEL -> does not really lower the acceleration!
Set TRAJ MAXACCEL much lower than AXIS MAX_ACCEL -> Acceleration remains as defined in AXIS MAX_ACCEL

Thanks, Thomas

Another strange behaivour:

the STEPGEN_MAXACCEL does NOT have any effect... if i set this Value in the ini-file it is ignored... If i start EMC then -> View Hal -> hm2.stepgen.X.Maxaccel is ALWAYS the same as the axis.maxaccel !!!

If this Value does not really do anything WHY is it there???

Starting EMC

-> View HAL -> hm2.stepgen.X.maxaccel = 100

-> Servo- Kalibration -> MAX_ACCEL -> change Value to i.e 200 -> hm2.stepgen.X.maxaccel also changes to 200!

-> seems that there is no way to change hm2.stepgens MAXACCEL!