X—Y Platform Synchronous Control with CANopen

An X — Y platform synchronous control with CANopen is proposed in this paper, and the platform includes a three-phase stepping motor, motor controller and driver. The Controller Area Network (CAN) Bus is adopted for communication, and the CANopen protocol is also implemented for control. Moreover, both CiA301 standard for communication and CiA402 standard for motor control are support. The interpolation mode in CiA402 is used for synchronized control of the X — Y platform, however, Cross-Coupling Control (CCC) is proposed to improve the precision of synchronized control. The experimental results show the proposed CCC perform higher accuracy than interpolation control. The phenomenon of more position error when higher speed is also discussed.