Plausibility check

The plausibility check of the input signals serves as an extended diagnosis to detect interference signals and to identify and suppress the step changes in the counter value caused by them.

Functional principle of the plausibility check

The square wave signals of an incremental encoder with track A and B are phase-shifted by 90°. This means that only certain transitions in the signal curve are permitted or "plausible", e.g. with a rising A-edge the signal on track B cannot also rise.

The plausibility of the signal sequence is checked in the terminal. If invalid signal transitions occur, these are detected and displayed accordingly if plausibility detection is activated.

Plausibility check sequence

Error diagnosis

Description

DiagMessage,
type "Error", text ID 0x8312

Encoder plausibility error (channel n)

0xA0n0:13
"Encoder plausibility error counter"

The error counter is incremented when a plausibility error is detected

0x60n2:0E
TxPDO State = 1

The associated TxPDO data are not valid

The plausibility error counter can be reset as follows:

or

0xFB001:01 "Request"

Description

0x9151

Sets the internal error counter 0xA000:13 "Encoder plausibility error counter" for channel 1 to zero

0x9161

Sets the internal error counter 0xA010:13 "Encoder plausibility error counter" for channel 2 to zero