Lean and Fast Fieldbus based Safety Functionality for Drives in Automation

Conference: PCIM Europe 2018 - International Exhibition and Conference for Power Electronics, Intelligent Motion, Renewable Energy and Energy Management
06/05/2018 - 06/07/2018 at Nürnberg, Deutschland

Proceedings: PCIM Europe 2018

Pages: 7Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Krah, Jens Onno; Basic, Adin (Technical University of Cologne, Germany)

Abstract:
Activating automation drive internal Safe Torque Off (STO) via a safety-related fieldbus requires from most product vendors additional safety hardware, e.g. a safety option card. The new ap-proach introduces a new lean and cost efficient technique for a safety-related fieldbus based STO. The method is based on standard fieldbuses with black-channel safety communica-tion (e.g. PROFIsafe or Safety over EtherCAT) and simple state machines – based on FPGA or ASIC technology – to process the safety protocol in a diversified way.