Contents
1 About this manual ............................................................................... 1-1
1.1 General ................................................................................... 1-3
1.2 Audience ................................................................................ 1-4
1.3 Abbreviations .......................................................................... 1-5
2 Safety .................................................................................................... 2-1
2.1 General ................................................................................... 2-3
3 Installation and configuration ............................................................ 3-1
3.1 Installation .............................................................................. 3-3
3.1.1 General ................................................................... 3-3
3.1.2 Install VVSU on a maintenance PC ........................ 3-3
3.2 Configuration .......................................................................... 3-5
3.2.1 General ................................................................... 3-5
3.2.2 Configure the Kepware OPC Server ....................... 3-5
3.2.3 Configure the OPC wrapper file .............................. 3-6
3.2.3.1 OPC wrapper file definitions .............................. 3-6
3.2.3.2 OPC wrapper address definition ........................ 3-8
3.2.3.3 Breaker measurement options ........................... 3-8
3.2.3.4 Carcass measurement options .......................... 3-10
3.2.3.5 Tread measurement options .............................. 3-10
3.2.4 Configure the VVSConfig.ini file .............................. 3-10
3.2.5 VVS Config file definitions ....................................... 3-11
3.2.6 Configure the CAN network .................................... 3-15
3.2.6.1 Addresses of all devices in the CAN network .... 3-15
3.2.6.2 How to set the address of actuator RK4004 ...... 3-16
3.2.6.3 How to set the address of Beckhoff BK5120 ..... 3-18
3.2.6.4 How to set the address of the camera ............... 3-18
3.2.6.5 How to set the virtual address of the camera ..... 3-19
3.2.6.6 Configure the number of cameras on the CAN
bus .....................................................................
3-19
4 Functional description ........................................................................ 4-1
4.1 General ................................................................................... 4-3
4.2 System architecture ................................................................ 4-4
4.2.1 General ................................................................... 4-4
4.2.2 Modular system ....................................................... 4-4
4.2.3 MAXX / EXXIUM ..................................................... 4-5
4.2.4 VAST / MILEXX ....................................................... 4-6
4.3 VVS Software ......................................................................... 4-7
4.4 Camera types ......................................................................... 4-8
5 Alignments, adjustments and calibrations ....................................... 5-1
5.1 Tooling .................................................................................... 5-3
5.2 Connect to VVS ...................................................................... 5-4
5.3 VVS Breaker ........................................................................... 5-5
5.3.1 Align the camera and light source ........................... 5-5
5.3.2 Adjust and focus the camera ................................... 5-7
5.3.3 Calibrate the camera ............................................... 5-14
5.3.4 Calibrate the actuator .............................................. 5-17
5.3.5 Calibrate the encoder .............................................. 5-23
5.4 VVS Tread .............................................................................. 5-25
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THINKING FORWARD
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