SICK LMS 200, Quick Manual

Page 1: ...Quick Manual MST DEMO setup 1 SICK AG Auto Ident Germany All rights reserved Quick Manual for MST Demo setup Software setup and configuration Version 1 0 August 2002 HW MV ...

Page 2: ... VIA MST DEMO 9 1 Principle of MST Demo 9 2 Installation of MST 9 2 Communication LMS to PC with MST 10 3 Record LMS scan data 11 4 Re play the stored data 12 5 Editing the Configuration file of the recorder 13 6 Transferring the file LMSData dat to a LMSData txt file 14 D APPENDICES 18 1 LMS in High Speed Mode 18 2 Further information and documentation 20 This is a quick start manual For extended...

Page 3: ...tion Laser Measurement Systems SICK order no 8008970 Main benefits of this measurement principle are Detection of objects independent of object color and surface structure Reliable detection of object presence The Laser Measurement System LMS offers a solution for a large range of applications Determining the volumes of objects measuring packages pallets containers Determining the position of obje...

Page 4: ...onnectors LMS221 30206 1018022 1 x power supply 24 V DC 15 min 2 5 A for LMS electronics Power supply DC 24V 2 5 A 6010361 1 x power supply 24 V DC 15 min 5 A for LMS heating Power supply DC 24V 10 A 6011156 1 x cable for power supply and output signals open cable ends 1 x cable for data interface Cable set 5 m length 2019561 Note In case of longer cables please source your own cable Please make s...

Page 5: ...221 a For LMS 200 LMS 291 LMS 200 LMS 291 Control Cabinet Power Supply 24 V DC Pin assignment Pin No Signal designation Input Output Wire color 1 GND_EXT ground Supply brown 2 Restart Input blue 3 VCC_EXT 24V DC 15 Supply red 4 Not connected 5 OUT C for field detection weak signal Output grey 6 Not connected 7 Not connected 8 OUT B for field detection Output turquoise 9 OUT A for field detection O...

Page 6: ...GND_EXT for heating Supply 5 Flap control Input For flap control details please refer to technical description 6 Not connected 7 OUT C for field detection weak signal Output 8 GND_EXT for electronics Supply 9 TxD Interface 10 TxD Interface 11 RS232 RS422 Jumper 2 12 VCC_EXT for heating Supply 13 OUT A for field detection Output 14 OUT A for field detection Output 15 Restart 16 VCC_EXT for electron...

Page 7: ...r LMS 200 LMS 291 Pin assignment LMS PC Signal designation PIN No PIN No Signal designation Not connected 1 1 NC RxD 2 2 RxD TXD 3 3 TXD Not connected 4 4 Not connected GND 5 5 GND Not connected 6 6 Not connected Not connected 7 7 Not connected Not connected 8 8 Not connected Not connected 9 9 Not connected Note PINs 2 and 3 are crossed in the cable The connector at the PC side is a 9 pin DSub 2 F...

Page 8: ...tation of your RS422 interface board manufacturer In case of deviations change the cable assignments accordingly For selection of the RS422 there needs to be a jumper connection between between PINs 7 and 8 on the LMS side inside the cable connector PINs 2 and 3 are crossed in the cable PINs 1 and 4 are crossed in the cable It is recommended to use twisted pair cables for RS422 connections 2 For L...

Page 9: ...pment On the other hand it is a tool for quick and easy recording of scans for a preliminary data evaluation The feasibility of the LMS sensor as a data source for a specific application can be evaluated with this tool 2 Installation of MST MST is delivered as a ZIP file Please create a dedicated MST home directory on your harddrive After unpacking the ZIP file into the home directory you get the ...

Page 10: ...t 9600Bd MST will automatically use the highest Baud rate possible when started The Software is now ready Within the Start button you will have several applications which can be started For every application MST_Demo will create a configuration file in the MST home directory This configuration file is a text file and can be edited with every editor In this quick start manual the application Record...

Page 11: ...t of the MST recorder is after pressing the OK button the scan is displayed and directly stored in the file LMSDATA dat in the MST home directory discussed later The screen should look like this By pressing the stop record button the recording will stop Note By default the data file is limited to 500 Kbyte Zoom Stop record Button ...

Page 12: ...lose application 4 Re play the stored data By pressing start again and selecting Play back LMS scan data the recorded data is displayed Depending on your computer hardware it is displayed faster than during the actual recording Remember if this is the first time you start the player it will create a new configuration file for the player In this case you will see ...

Page 13: ...e directory the new configuration is used by the LMS upon the next start up of the MST Recorder The default settings can be restored by deleting the all configuration files extension cfg from the MST home directory Default created by the first record task no LMSRecorder cfg in the MST home directory Default mode Angular range Angular resolution Measurement range 0 180 0 5 8 m The Configuration_LMS...

Page 14: ...rmat which will be discussed later 6 Transferring the file LMSData dat to a LMSData txt file By starting the recorder automatically a new file LMSDATA dat is created This file is only readable by MST Software To generate a readable text file MST Demo provides an integrated conversion function Close all open applications and select the LMS Recorder file conversion function in the Options menu Press...

Page 15: ...ermany All rights reserved Press the Open button and then continue if the displayed path is correct for your conversion file The next window shows the parameters for the conversion If you use the standard configuration you don t have to change anything ...

Page 16: ...t file can be read by any editor for text If you use for example Microsoft EXCEL you will get the values in a logical order As an example In default setting of 0 5 resolution and 180 angular view you get a similar picture In the displayed example you find the first distance data point of the 0 shot at cell E4 E5 shows the 0 5 shot E6 shows the 1 shot and so on The row 5 shows the next scan The fol...

Page 17: ...is case your file looks similar to the following The column D in line 4 shows values from 1 to 4 The number 1 in row D indicates there are 181 values following starting with 0 1 2 180 The number 2 in row D indicates there are 180 values following starting with 0 25 1 25 2 25 179 25 The number 3 in row D indicates there are 180 values following staring with 0 5 1 5 2 5 179 5 And finally the number ...

Page 18: ...use one of the following special serial communication boards as supplied by SICK Item Specification Description SICK order number MOXA card for 500 kBaud ISA bus old PC standard 2 x RS422 opto decoupled high speed 500 kBaud 6011807 Quatech card for 500 kBaud PCI bus new PC standard 2 x RS 422 high Speed 500kBaud 6022515 PCMCIA card for 500 kBaud SIO card RS485 SICK Order at CSM GmbH Raiffeisenstra...

Page 19: ...linked together in SICK Connector RS 422 can only be used if the pinning fits to the PC side Cable 2 wires open LMS 211 LMS 22X Cable 8 RxD 4 RxD 2 TXD 7 TXD 3 GND 2 RxD 1 RxD 9 TXD 10 TXD Shield 16 24V 8 GND 9 pol SUB D male Quatech Interface Card SICK Connector 2018301 female Fig Pinning of the data interface Quatech card à LMS211 LMS220 LMS221 Note PIN 3 and PIN 11 need to bee linked together i...

Page 20: ...nted Benefit of the 500 kBaud communications mode The LMS collects measurement data of the defined scan range 75 times per second In the 180 0 5 resolution mode there are 361 measurement values 2 bytes per value plus framing per scan refer to D 2 LMS output format for details Due to the large quantity of data generated by the LMS it is ONLY possible to transfer all acquired data in the 500 kBaud c...