CRANE_POSITION_CTRL

Single-axis crane positioning with a jerk-limited travel profile, creep spotting band and no-progress supervision.

Validated application blockMHE · Crane & HoistIEC 61131-3IEC 61499v1.0.0

When to use it

Use CRANE_POSITION_CTRL when one crane travel axis — a bridge, a trolley, a gantry long-travel or a stacker traverse — has position feedback and must be driven to a commanded coordinate and spotted accurately, with the drive following a speed setpoint.

Interface

The published port signature. This is the whole of what the block exposes to your program — the implementation body is not shown here and ships with the download.

Inputs

PortTypeUnit
ENABLEBOOL—
GOTOBOOL—
TARGETREALm
POSREALm
POS_OKBOOL—
V_MAXREALm/s
A_MAXREALm/s2
J_MAXREALm/s3
CREEP_SPDREALm/s
CREEP_DISTREALm
POS_WINREALm
STALL_TMOTIME—
ACKBOOL—

Outputs

PortTypeUnit
SPEED_SPREALm/s
ACC_SPREALm/s2
IN_POSITIONBOOL—
MOVINGBOOL—
CREEPINGBOOL—
DIST_REMREALm
ALM_STALLBOOL—
ALM_POS_FAULTBOOL—
ALM_CFG_ERRBOOL—

IEC 61499 event interface

EI INIT, REQ·EO INITO, CNF

Validation evidence

Tests
9
Simulated scans
399
Simulator
v0.1.0

Complete IEC 61131-3 implementation with a published test suite that runs on the vplant simulator. The counts above are that suite, executed on this build.

  • Conforms to IEC 61131-3
  • Conforms to IEC 61499

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