阅读说明：本技术 数控系统多种现场总线的混联总线协议架构及其通信方法 (Series-parallel bus protocol architecture of multiple field buses of numerical control system and communication method thereof ) 是由 刘涛 陈灿 王传兵 王旭 贾聪聪 崔郑朋 于 2021-08-19 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供了一种数控系统多种现场总线的混联总线协议架构及其通信方法,用于实现数控系统与多种现场总线的互联互通,其中数控系统为主站,多种现场总线对应的设备为从站,该数控系统多种现场总线的混联总线协议架构包括应用数据交换模块、状态机模块、映射模块、协议模块和驱动模块；所述应用数据交换模块用于与数控系统进行数据交互；所述状态机模块中定义有总线的通讯状态,用于控制系统的通讯过程；所述映射模块用于实现从站数据对象与相应总线的匹配；所述协议模块用于实现特定的总线协议,对数据帧进行打包封装使其能与相关从站设备正确通信,以及完成数据的差异性转化；所述通信卡驱动模块用于负责各逻辑主站与从站之间的通信。本发明实现了数控系统与多种现场总线的互联互通。(The invention provides a serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of a plurality of field buses of a numerical control system and a communication method thereof, which are used for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of the numerical control system and the plurality of field buses, wherein the numerical control system is a master station, equipment corresponding to the plurality of field buses is a slave station, and the serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of the plurality of field buses of the numerical control system comprises an application data exchange module, a state machine module, a mapping module, a protocol module and a driving module; the application data exchange module is used for carrying out data interaction with the numerical control system; the state machine module is defined with the communication state of the bus and is used for controlling the communication process of the system; the mapping module is used for realizing the matching of the slave station data object and the corresponding bus; the protocol module is used for realizing a specific bus protocol, packaging and packaging the data frame to enable the data frame to be correctly communicated with the relevant slave station equipment, and finishing the differential conversion of data; and the communication card driving module is used for being responsible for communication between each logic master station and each logic slave station. The invention realizes the interconnection and intercommunication of the numerical control system and various field buses.)

1. A series-parallel bus protocol architecture of a plurality of field buses of a numerical control system is used for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of the numerical control system and the plurality of field buses, wherein the numerical control system is a master station, and equipment corresponding to the plurality of field buses is a slave station, and the series-parallel bus protocol architecture is characterized in that: the serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of the multiple field buses of the numerical control system comprises an application data exchange module, a state machine module, a mapping module, a protocol module and a driving module;

the application data exchange module is used for carrying out data interaction with the numerical control system;

the state machine module is defined with the communication state of the bus and is used for controlling the communication process of the system;

the mapping module is used for realizing the matching of the slave station data object and the corresponding bus;

the protocol module is used for realizing a specific bus protocol, packaging and packaging the data frame to enable the data frame to be correctly communicated with the relevant slave station equipment, and finishing the differential conversion of data;

and the communication card driving module is used for being responsible for communication between each logic master station and each logic slave station.

2. The serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of multiple field buses of a numerical control system as recited in claim 1, wherein: the application data exchange module is defined with a slave station data object, the attributes of which comprise a bus type, a bus pointer, equipment information and an object dictionary, wherein the bus type is used for identifying a bus to which the slave station belongs, the bus pointer is used for operating the slave station equipment, the equipment information describes basic information of the slave station, and the object dictionary records data interaction of the slave station and the numerical control system.

3. The serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of multiple field buses of a numerical control system as recited in claim 1, wherein: the states of the state machines in the state machine module include: INIT, PROBE, IDENTIFY, CONFIG, OP, STOP, RESET; in the INIT state, the hybrid bus completes initialization of each master station data object and creates master station data objects; scanning slave stations by various protocol master stations in a PROBE state, acquiring the number of the slave stations establishing connection and setting station addresses for the slave stations; in the IDENTIFY state, the master station acquires basic information of the connected slave station through the slave station address and completes the initialization of the slave station data object; the master station configures data transmission channels of the slave stations in the CONFIG state, activates the master station after the configuration work is completed, and enters the OP state; the master station and the slave station carry out periodic data communication in the OP state; when the communication is abnormal, the system enters a STOP state and the bus alarms.

4. The serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of multiple field buses of a numerical control system as recited in claim 1, wherein: the mapping module is defined with main station data objects, the attributes of which comprise the number of the auxiliary stations and the number of the auxiliary station data objects, wherein the number of the auxiliary stations indicates the number of the auxiliary stations connected with each main station, and the main station data objects are related to the auxiliary station data objects.

5. The serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of the plurality of field buses of the numerical control system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the mapping process of the mapping module is as follows: establishing master station data objects, and associating each master station data object to a corresponding communication card driving interface; and sending a broadcast message through a bus protocol interface of each logic master station, acquiring the number and the type of each slave station, configuring equal number of logic slave stations for each logic master station according to the acquired number of the slave stations, and setting the bus types of the logic slave stations to finish mapping.

6. A data communication method based on the serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of a plurality of field buses of a numerical control system as recited in any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized by comprising the following steps:

after the system is powered on, each device enters an INIT initial state, a logic master station of a corresponding bus is established according to a bus configuration file, and a communication card driving module is loaded, so that interfaces of the communication card driving module are associated with the logic master stations of the buses; initializing the data structure of each bus in sequence; entering a PROBE state after initialization is completed, wherein each master station sends a broadcast message in the PROBE state, scans and connects slave stations, obtains the number of the slave stations and a network topological structure, and allocates the same number of slave station data objects to each logic master station; then entering an IDENTIFY state, reading the basic information of each slave station by each logic master station, and defining a slave station data object by the bus driving module according to the acquired related information to complete the mapping between the master and slave data objects; then entering a CONFIG state, configuring communication parameters and working mode information for each slave station in the CONFIG state, and sending configuration information to each slave station by each logic master station; at this point, the configuration work before communication is finished, the OP state is entered, and data communication is normally carried out among all the devices in the system.

7. The data communication method of claim 6, applied to a plurality of field buses including three buses of NCUC, EtherCAT and anan M3, the method further comprising fine-tuning each bus cycle as follows:

taking the EtherCAT reference clock as a time reference of the system, acquiring cycle time of a slave station of the EtherCAT reference clock by a CPU (central processing unit), and finely adjusting a processing cycle of the CPU to keep up with the beat of an EtherCAT communication cycle; in addition, the CPU finely adjusts the communication period of the NCUC, so that the NCUC follows the EtherCAT beat, and Anchuan M3 follows the NCUC, thereby ensuring that the beats of the periods are consistent.

8. The data communication method of claim 7, further comprising setting each communication card timer interrupt time as follows:

the difference between the time of generating the SYNC signal of the NCUC protocol and the time of sending the data frame by the main station is 100us, the EtherCAT main station autonomously sets the time of generating the SYNC signal, the timer interrupt time of the NCUC communication card is taken as the reference to set the interrupt time of the EtherCAT communication card, and the Anchuan M3 directly leads the IRQ interrupt generated by the NCUC bus to the Anchuan M3 bus by setting external interrupt, so that the SYNC signals of the NCUC protocol, the EtherCAT communication card and the Anchuan bus are within a limited difference range.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of numerical control, in particular to a serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of multiple field buses of a numerical control system and a communication method thereof.

Background

At present, the number of buses that have been successfully applied to the industrial field is not hundreds, but since each bus is based on different technologies and protocols at different levels, including NCUC, EtherCAT, anca M3, etc., the back of each technology is supported by different manufacturers, which determines the coexistence situation of multiple real-time ethernet technologies, and the situation does not change in a short period of time.

The existing numerical control system can only be connected with one bus protocol device at the same time, cannot use devices with different protocols in a parallel-serial mode, and even if the devices are used in the parallel-serial mode, the synchronism among the devices is difficult to guarantee.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of multiple field buses of a numerical control system and a communication method thereof, and aims to solve the problems that the existing numerical control system can only be connected with one bus protocol device at the same time, the devices with different protocols cannot be used in a serial-parallel mode, and the synchronization among the devices cannot be ensured in the serial-parallel mode.

The invention is realized by the following steps:

on one hand, the invention provides a serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of a plurality of field buses of a numerical control system, which is used for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of the numerical control system and the plurality of field buses, wherein the numerical control system is a master station, equipment corresponding to the plurality of field buses is a slave station, and the serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of the plurality of field buses of the numerical control system comprises an application data exchange module, a state machine module, a mapping module, a protocol module and a driving module;

the application data exchange module is used for carrying out data interaction with the numerical control system;

the state machine module is defined with the communication state of the bus and is used for controlling the communication process of the system;

the mapping module is used for realizing the matching of the slave station data object and the corresponding bus;

the protocol module is used for realizing a specific bus protocol, packaging and packaging the data frame to enable the data frame to be correctly communicated with the relevant slave station equipment, and finishing the differential conversion of data;

and the communication card driving module is used for being responsible for communication between each logic master station and each logic slave station.

Further, a slave station data object is defined in the application data exchange module, and the attributes of the slave station data object comprise a bus type, a bus pointer, device information and an object dictionary, wherein the bus type is used for identifying a bus to which the slave station belongs, the bus pointer is used for operating the slave station device, the device information describes basic information of the slave station, and the object dictionary records data interaction of the slave station and the numerical control system.

Further, the states of the state machines in the state machine module include: INIT, PROBE, IDENTIFY, CONFIG, OP, STOP, RESET; in the INIT state, the hybrid bus completes initialization of each master station data object and creates master station data objects; scanning slave stations by various protocol master stations in a PROBE state, acquiring the number of the slave stations establishing connection and setting station addresses for the slave stations; in the IDENTIFY state, the master station acquires basic information of the connected slave station through the slave station address and completes the initialization of the slave station data object; the master station configures data transmission channels of the slave stations in the CONFIG state, activates the master station after the configuration work is completed, and enters the OP state; the master station and the slave station carry out periodic data communication in the OP state; when the communication is abnormal, the system enters a STOP state and the bus alarms.

Furthermore, the mapping module defines master station data objects, and the attributes of the master station data objects include the number of slave stations and the number of slave station data objects, wherein the number of slave stations indicates the number of slave stations connected to each master station, and the master station data objects are associated with the slave station data objects according to the number of slave stations.

Further, the mapping process of the mapping module is as follows: establishing master station data objects, and associating each master station data object to a corresponding communication card driving interface; and sending a broadcast message through a bus protocol interface of each logic master station, acquiring the number and the type of each slave station, configuring equal number of logic slave stations for each logic master station according to the acquired number of the slave stations, and setting the bus types of the logic slave stations to finish mapping.

On the other hand, the invention provides a data communication method based on the serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of the multiple field buses of the numerical control system, which comprises the following steps:

after the system is powered on, each device enters an INIT initial state, a logic master station of a corresponding bus is established according to a bus configuration file, and a communication card driving module is loaded, so that interfaces of the communication card driving module are associated with the logic master stations of the buses; initializing the data structure of each bus in sequence; entering a PROBE state after initialization is completed, wherein each master station sends a broadcast message in the PROBE state, scans and connects slave stations, obtains the number of the slave stations and a network topological structure, and allocates the same number of slave station data objects to each logic master station; then entering an IDENTIFY state, reading the basic information of each slave station by each logic master station, and defining a slave station data object by the bus driving module according to the acquired related information to complete the mapping between the master and slave data objects; then entering a CONFIG state, configuring communication parameters and working mode information for each slave station in the CONFIG state, and sending configuration information to each slave station by each logic master station; at this point, the configuration work before communication is finished, the OP state is entered, and data communication is normally carried out among all the devices in the system.

Further, the method is applied to various field buses including three buses of NCUC, EtherCAT and Anchuan M3, and the method also comprises the following steps of finely adjusting each bus cycle:

taking the EtherCAT reference clock as a time reference of the system, acquiring cycle time of a slave station of the EtherCAT reference clock by a CPU (central processing unit), and finely adjusting a processing cycle of the CPU to keep up with the beat of an EtherCAT communication cycle; in addition, the CPU finely adjusts the communication period of the NCUC, so that the NCUC follows the EtherCAT beat, and Anchuan M3 follows the NCUC, thereby ensuring that the beats of the periods are consistent.

Further, the method further comprises setting the interrupt time of each communication card timer, specifically as follows:

the difference between the time of generating the SYNC signal of the NCUC protocol and the time of sending the data frame by the main station is 100us, the EtherCAT main station autonomously sets the time of generating the SYNC signal, the timer interrupt time of the NCUC communication card is taken as the reference to set the interrupt time of the EtherCAT communication card, and the Anchuan M3 directly leads the IRQ interrupt generated by the NCUC bus to the Anchuan M3 bus by setting external interrupt, so that the SYNC signals of the NCUC protocol, the EtherCAT communication card and the Anchuan bus are within a limited difference range.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

the invention provides a serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of a plurality of field buses of a numerical control system and a communication method thereof, wherein the serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of the plurality of field buses of the numerical control system adopts a method based on master-slave station mapping models to solve the problems of conversion and orientation of undifferentiated data information in the numerical control system to differential data of each slave station, thereby realizing interconnection and intercommunication between the numerical control system and the plurality of field buses; the synchronism of the three buses is ensured by finely adjusting each bus period and setting the interrupt time of each communication card timer; the serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of the numerical control system with various field buses has expandability, and buses with other protocols can be added to the architecture.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a system platform of a hybrid bus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a diagram of a serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of multiple field buses of a numerical control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a slave data object according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a master station data object according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a communication state definition of a serial-parallel bus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating a synchronization principle of a parallel-serial bus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a cycle trimming principle provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of timer interrupt setting according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, a system platform of a parallel-serial bus is provided, in which a parallel-serial bus protocol is implemented in a parallel-serial bus driver module, and runs in an operating system, the operating system is embedded in an industrial control computer IPC, and a control numerical control system performs real-time data interaction with each slave station through a plurality of field buses. The general interface of industrial control computer IPC is connected with communication card of each field bus, and the communication card can make data interaction with slave station in network segment.

As shown in fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of multiple field buses of a numerical control system, which is applied to a bus driver module of a system platform of a serial-parallel bus shown in fig. 1, and is used for implementing interconnection and intercommunication between the numerical control system and the multiple field buses, in this embodiment, the multiple field buses include three buses, namely, an NCUC, EtherCAT, and an antan M3, so as to facilitate management of the serial-parallel bus protocol, improve expandability of the buses, and block the bus protocol, where the serial-parallel bus architecture includes an application data exchange module, a state machine module, a mapping module, a protocol module, and a driver module.

The application data exchange module is used for carrying out data interaction with the numerical control system; as shown in fig. 3, the slave data object with three buses is defined in the application data exchange module, and its attributes include a bus type, a bus pointer, device information and an object dictionary, these objects are logical abstractions of each slave device, the bus type in the slave object is used to identify the bus to which the slave belongs, the bus pointer is used to operate the slave device, the device information describes the basic information of the slave, and the object dictionary records the data interaction of the slave and the numerical control system. The slave station data objects of the three buses inherit the slave station data objects of the hybrid buses, and are added with the symbolic attributes so as to accord with the protocols of all the buses.

The state machine module is defined with the communication state of the bus and is used for controlling the communication process of the system; the state machine module of the embodiment of the invention is compatible with the state conversion in three buses, the state conversion of the buses has a common part, namely, the state machine module is configured firstly and then communicates, and based on the characteristic, the state of the state machine in the module comprises the following steps: INIT, PROBE, IDENTIFY, CONFIG, OP, STOP, RESET. In the INIT state, the hybrid bus completes initialization of each master station data object and creates master station data objects; scanning slave stations by various protocol master stations in a PROBE state, acquiring the number of the slave stations establishing connection and setting station addresses for the slave stations; in the IDENTIFY state, the master station acquires basic information of the connected slave station through the slave station address and completes the initialization of the slave station data object; the method comprises the steps that a master station configures data transmission channels of all slave stations in a CONFIG state, PDO mapping data of all the slave stations are configured, a DC register of each slave station is configured, clock synchronization is completed, the master station is activated after configuration work is completed, and the master station enters an OP state; the master station and the slave station carry out periodic data communication in the OP state; when the communication is abnormal, the STOP state is entered and the bus alarms.

As shown in fig. 5, the definition of the communication state of the serial-parallel bus is as follows:

e1: conversion of init to Probe

The hybrid bus will complete the initialization of each master station data object, allocate the master station memory, and create the master station data object.

E2: probe to identity conversion

In the EtherCAT bus, a master station sends a broadcast message, acquires the number of connected slave stations and sets station addresses for the slave stations.

In the NCUC bus, a master station sends scanning frames in a broadcast communication mode, obtains a topological structure in a network segment and the number of slave stations, and sets station addresses for the slave stations.

Inside the antuan M3 bus, the user sets the connection station address in the initial state. In the scanning state, the master station uses the CONNECT command to check whether the slave stations with the same station address exist on the network, so as to establish connection, and judges the number of the slave stations according to the response data.

E3: conversion of identity to config

In the EtherCAT bus, the master station sends a message, reads basic information of the connected slave station, and completes initialization of the slave station data object.

Inside the NCUC bus, the master reads the basic information of the connected slave using the SL _ PA command and completes the initialization of the slave data object.

Inside the antuan M3 bus, the master reads the basic information of the connected slave using the ID _ RD command and completes the initialization of the slave data object.

E4: conversion of config to op

In the EtherCAT bus, the master station configures the data transmission channel of each slave station through the read basic slave station information, configures PDO mapping data of each slave station, and configures a DC register of each slave station. The master station will be activated after the configuration is completed.

In the NCUC bus, the master station uses SL _ WM commands to configure the working modes of the slave stations, uses CCT commands to configure communication periods, and uses NDTC and NCTT commands to set the network time delay of each slave station.

Inside the antuan M3 bus, the master uses the CONFIG command to configure the slave related information.

The mapping module is used for realizing the matching of the slave station data object and the corresponding bus; as shown in fig. 4, master data objects are defined in the mapping module, which are the logical masters of the respective buses. The attributes comprise the number of slave stations and slave station data objects, wherein the number of the slave stations indicates the number of the slave stations connected with each master station, and the master station data objects are related to the slave station data objects. The mapping process is as follows: establishing three types of master station data objects, and associating each master station data object to a corresponding communication card driving interface; and sending a broadcast message through a bus protocol interface of each logic master station, acquiring the number and the type of each slave station, configuring equal number of logic slave stations for each logic master station according to the acquired number of the slave stations, and setting the bus types of the logic slave stations to finish mapping.

The protocol module realizes a specific bus protocol, data frames are packaged in the module to enable the data frames to be correctly communicated with relevant slave station equipment, and differential conversion of data is completed in the module.

And the communication card driving module is used for being responsible for communication between each logic master station and each logic slave station.

The embodiment also comprises a bus configuration file which is used for establishing each bus logic master station, and a user can select the bus according to the requirement through the configuration file.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a data communication method of a serial-parallel bus protocol architecture based on the multiple field buses of the numerical control system, which comprises the following steps:

after the system is powered on, each device enters an INIT initial state, the hybrid bus driving module establishes a logic master station of a corresponding bus according to the bus configuration file, and loads the communication card driving module to enable the interface of the communication card driving module to be associated with each bus logic master station. The hybrid bus driving module initializes the data structure of each bus in sequence; entering a PROBE state after initialization is completed, wherein each master station sends a broadcast message in the PROBE state, scans and connects slave stations, obtains the number of the slave stations and a network topological structure, and allocates the same number of slave station data objects to each logic master station; then entering an IDENTIFY state, reading the basic information of each slave station by each logic master station, and defining a slave station data object by the bus driving module according to the acquired related information to complete the mapping between the master and slave data objects; and then entering a CONFIG state, configuring information such as communication parameters, working modes and the like for each slave station by a user in the CONFIG state through a bus driving module, and sending configuration information to each slave station by each logic master station. At this point, the configuration work before communication is completed, and the OP state is entered, so that data communication is normally performed among the devices in the system.

The method also includes how to fine tune the individual bus cycles, eliminate jitter, and set the individual communication card timer interrupt times.

The method for finely adjusting each bus cycle comprises the following steps: in order to be compatible with the characteristic, the EtherCAT reference clock is used as the time reference of the system so as to set the timer interrupt of each communication card. The CPU can not intervene the operation of the EtherCAT cycle, but can acquire the time of the EtherCAT cycle, and can finely adjust the processing cycle of the CPU to keep up with the beat of the EtherCAT communication cycle. When the EtherCAT master-slave station communicates, a communication cycle exists, the CPU obtains the cycle time and finely adjusts the processing cycle of the CPU to keep up with the beat of the EtherCAT communication cycle. In addition, the CPU finely adjusts the communication period of the NCUC, so that the NCUC also follows the EtherCAT beat, and the akana M3 follows the NCUC, so far, it is ensured that the beats of the periods are consistent, fig. 6 is a synchronization principle of the parallel-serial bus, and fig. 7 is a period fine adjustment principle.

The method for setting the interrupt time of each communication card timer comprises the following steps: theoretically, the slave station SYNC signals driven by each bus should be generated at the same time, but due to the difference of each bus protocol and the internal complexity, all the slave stations of the parallel-serial bus are difficult to ensure to generate the SYNC signals at the same time. Since the cycle beats of the respective buses have been set to be identical before, there will be no error in the relative synchronization for a continuously processed system, and the timer interrupt setting process is shown in fig. 8.

The method for setting the SYNC signals of the communication cards within the limited difference range comprises the following steps: the difference between the generation time of the SYNC signal of the NCUC protocol and the time of the data frame sent by the main station is 100us, the EtherCAT main station autonomously sets the generation time of the SYNC signal, so that the interrupt time of the EtherCAT communication card is set by taking the interrupt time of a timer of the NCUC communication card as reference, and the Anchuan M3 directly leads the IRQ interrupt generated by the NCUC bus to the Anchuan M3 bus by setting external interrupt, so that the SYNC signals of the NCUC protocol, the EtherCAT communication card and the Anchuan bus can be within a limited difference range.

In summary, in the hybrid bus protocol architecture of the multiple field buses of the numerical control system and the communication method thereof provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the hybrid bus protocol architecture of the multiple field buses of the numerical control system adopts a master-slave station mapping model-based method to solve the problem of conversion and orientation from undifferentiated data information to differential data of each slave station in the numerical control system, so as to implement interconnection and intercommunication between the numerical control system and the multiple field buses; the synchronism of the three buses is ensured by finely adjusting each bus period and setting the interrupt time of each communication card timer; the serial-parallel bus protocol architecture of the numerical control system with various field buses has expandability, and buses with other protocols can be added to the architecture.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or part of the steps of the various methods of the embodiments may be implemented by associated hardware as instructed by a program, which may be stored on a computer-readable storage medium, which may include: a Read Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic or optical disk, or the like.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.