Open CaPlasberg opened 8 months ago
Hi, From my perspective, homing operations should be rather handled by a dedicated controller based on the use case, as there are many ways to do it (inside the drive, pure controller, hybrid). To do what you need, there are 2 options that do not require a dedicated controller :
Hi, I'm currently using a setup with several drives using the generic CiA402 drive plugin. Each of these drives has an incremental encoder, so homing is an essential procedure during the startup of the robot. This rises two problems: a) I need to change the mode_of_operation while the ros2_ethercat_driver is already running and b) homing requires (at least on the Nanotec PD4-E I'm using) a rising edge of specific bits in the controlword. I can see two solutions: