JP2005164329A - Rotary encoder detector - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotary encoder detector for detecting the rotating direction and the amount of change in a rotary encoder using a simplified structure. <P>SOLUTION: A diphase pulse counter part is used to acquire a count value, corresponding to the amount of change of normal rotation or reverse rotation operation of an operation knob part, based on the diphase pulse from a rotary encoder part. By a counter change detecting/processing part started periodically, the count value sampled this time of the counter part is compared with the stored value sampled the last time. When the two count values are not equal to each other, the knob part is determined as having been operated, and a result obtained by subtracting this time value from the last time value is outputted as argument. A rotation direction/change amount analyzing/processing part detects the rotation direction of the knob part, based on the positive or negative sign of the argument while detecting the amount of change of the knob part from the absolute value of the argument. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a rotary encoder detection device that detects the presence / absence of an operation, a rotation direction, and an amount of change in an input device using a rotary encoder.

  A rotary encoder is a detector that converts the amount of mechanical displacement (analog amount) in the rotational direction into an electrical pulse (digital amount), but measures the position, angle, speed, etc. of the mechanical device, the rotational speed of the motor, It is used to control the amount of rotation. In recent years, its applications are expanding, such as being used in positioning servo systems for robots and information devices. Among them, there is a technique for setting a transmission / reception frequency by using a rotary pulse of a rotary encoder in a radio channel selection device (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  In the technique of Patent Document 1, forward and reverse operations and a rotation speed of a rotary encoder are given by an operation knob, and a rotation pulse corresponding to the operation is output from the rotary encoder unit. The rotation pulses are counted by a right rotation pulse counting unit and a left rotation pulse counting unit which are independent of each other. The magnitude of the count value is determined by the numerical value comparison unit based on the reference value, and a coefficient corresponding to the size is obtained from the coefficient generation unit. The multiplication unit multiplies the coefficient, the count value of the rotation pulse counting unit, and the unique channel step frequency set in the frequency band. Further, the rotation direction detection unit obtains detection information indicating the rotation direction of the rotary encoder using the count value of one right rotation pulse counting unit. Next, in the computing unit, the rotational direction of the rotary encoder is determined from the multiplication result of the multiplication unit and the detection information, and the computation is performed based on the multiplication result and the current transmission / reception frequency. In this calculation, the multiplication result is added to the current transmission / reception frequency when the rotation direction is right, while the multiplication result is subtracted from the current transmission / reception frequency when the rotation direction is left. The calculation result obtained by the calculator, that is, the frequency data is given to the local oscillator, and a new transmission / reception frequency is set.

  According to the above conventional technique, when the frequency is greatly changed at the time of channel selection, the target frequency is set in a short time by a single operation by simply rotating the rotary encoder, while the frequency is decreased at the time of channel selection. In the case of changing, or when the target frequency approaches during channel selection, the frequency can be finely changed by gently rotating the rotary encoder.

JP-A-6-216800

  In the conventional rotary encoder detection device applied to the channel selection device as described above, an independent right rotation pulse counting unit and left rotation pulse counting unit are provided to count pulses with respect to the rotation of the rotary encoder, and the output result The amount of change of the rotation pulse is calculated by the multiplication unit based on the above, but the apparatus configuration is complicated accordingly. Further, the final rotation direction and the amount of change need to be calculated by the calculation unit with the output results of the rotation direction detection unit and the multiplication unit, and the algorithm for obtaining the detection result is complicated.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a rotary encoder detection device that can detect the rotational direction and change amount of a rotary encoder with a simplified configuration.

  A rotary encoder detection device according to the present invention has an operation knob portion for rotating a rotary encoder by performing forward and reverse operations, and a predetermined phase difference representing rotation of the rotary encoder with an operation change amount of the operation knob portion as an input. A rotary encoder unit that outputs two-phase pulses of A phase and B phase, and a two-phase pulse that obtains a count value corresponding to the amount of change in forward or reverse operation of the operation knob unit based on the output two-phase pulse A counter unit, and a control unit that detects an input state by the operation knob unit based on the count value of the two-phase pulse counter unit, and the control unit is started at a fixed period and is sampled this time Compare the count value of the previous sample and the count value previously sampled, and if both count values are equal, the operation knob A counter that determines that there is no operation, and on the other hand, if both count values are not equal, determines that there is an operation on the operation knob and outputs the result of subtracting the previously sampled count value from the current sampled count value as an argument A change detection processing unit, and a rotation direction / change amount analysis processing unit that detects the rotation direction of the operation knob unit based on the sign of the argument and detects the change amount of the operation knob unit from the absolute value of the argument. It is what I did.

  According to this invention, the two-phase pulse output of the rotary encoder is counted using the two-phase pulse counter, and the presence / absence of the operation is detected by sampling the count result of the two-phase pulse counter at a fixed period. Since the rotation direction and the amount of change can be detected only by calculating the difference between them, there is an effect that the configuration can be simplified.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
1 is a block circuit diagram showing the configuration of a rotary encoder detection apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In the figure, the rotary encoder is rotated in the forward direction or the reverse direction by rotating the operation knob 1 forward or backward. The rotary encoder unit 2 receives a change amount of the forward and reverse operations of the operation knob unit 1 as an input, and outputs a two-phase pulse of A phase and B phase having a predetermined phase difference representing rotation of the rotary encoder as a two-phase pulse counter unit. Output to 3. The two-phase pulse counter unit 3 performs addition or subtraction based on the two-phase pulse output from the rotary encoder unit 2 to obtain a count value corresponding to the forward or reverse change amount of the operation knob unit 1.

A counting example of the two-phase pulse counter 3 will be described with reference to FIG. Here, how the two-phase pulse counter 3 counts the two-phase pulse waveform output from the rotary encoder unit 2 when the operation knob unit 1 is rotated forward and backward is shown. One change amount operation in this case represents one click of the operation knob. The two-phase pulse counter unit 3 has a function of up-counting the rising edge of the B-phase pulse and down-counting the falling edge of the B-phase pulse during the period when the input A-phase pulse is at “H” level. . In the case of one click in FIG. 4, since the rise of the B phase at the time of forward rotation is one time, it is counted as (+1), and since the fall of the B phase at the time of reverse rotation is also one time, it is counted as (−1). Become. That is, it is assumed that the two-phase pulse counter unit 3 counts (+1) for each forward rotation change amount of the operation knob unit 1 and counts (−1) for each reverse rotation amount of change. Therefore, for example, if the operation knob section 1 is advanced by two clicks (two changes) in either direction, the two-phase pulse counter section 3 counts (+2) or (−2) (in the present invention, this is referred to as “ This is referred to as “the count value of the two-phase pulse counter unit”.
The two-phase pulse counter unit 3 and the control unit 4 are specifically configured with functions built in one microcomputer (for example, a single-chip 16-bit CMOS microcomputer: product name “M16C / 62N”).

  The count value of the two-phase pulse counter unit 3 is input to the control unit 4, and the input state by the operation knob unit 1 is detected based on the count value. The control unit 4 includes a processing block including a fixed cycle processing unit 41, a counter change detection processing unit 42, and a rotation direction / change amount analysis processing unit 43. The fixed cycle processing unit 41 is means for starting the counter change detection processing unit 42 at a fixed cycle. The counter change detection processing unit 42 is started at a fixed cycle by the fixed cycle processing unit 41, compares the count value of the two-phase pulse counter unit 3 sampled this time with the count value sampled last time stored and an operation knob. It is means for detecting the presence or absence of operation of the unit 1 and outputting the result obtained by subtracting the previously sampled count value from the currently sampled count value as an argument when it is determined that there is an operation. When the rotation direction / change amount analysis processing unit 43 receives an argument from the counter change detection processing 42, the rotation direction / change amount analysis processing unit 43 detects the rotation direction of the operation knob unit 1 based on the sign of the argument and operates from the absolute value of the argument. This is a means for detecting the amount of change in the knob section 1.

Next, the operation of the control unit 4 will be described.
The counter change detection processing unit 42 is started at a regular cycle from the regular cycle processing unit 41 and performs the process of the procedure shown in FIG. When the counter change detection processing unit 42 reads the count value of the two-phase pulse counter unit 3, it compares the current sampling value with the previous sampling value (step ST61). If the two sampling values are equal, it is determined that there is no change in the operation knob portion 1, and if it is not equal, it is determined that there is a change in the operation knob portion 1 (step ST62). If it is determined that there is a change, (current sampling value) − (previous sampling value) = Arg is calculated, and the rotation direction / change amount analysis processing unit 43 is requested to start using Arg as an argument (step ST63). Also, each time the system is started, the current sampling value is replaced with the previous sampling value and stored in the memory (step ST64), and the process is terminated. In this embodiment, sampling is performed with a period sufficiently larger than the chattering time that occurs when the rotary encoder changes.

The rotation direction / change amount analysis processing unit 43 requested to start from the counter change detection processing 42 performs the processing in the procedure shown in FIG. The rotation direction / change amount analysis processing 43 determines whether the argument Arg is a signed integer or not (step ST71). When the argument Arg is a positive integer, it is determined that the operation knob unit 1 has rotated in the “forward rotation” direction by the absolute value of the argument Arg (step ST72). On the other hand, when the argument Arg is a negative integer, it is determined that the operation knob unit 1 has rotated in the “reverse direction” by the absolute value of the argument Arg (step ST73). FIG. 5 shows operation states of the counter change detection processing unit 42 and the rotation direction / change amount analysis processing unit 43 on the assumption of the example shown in FIG.
The control unit 4 can set the controlled device using the rotation direction and change amount data obtained by the above processing.

  As an operation different from the example of FIG. 4, the two-phase pulse counter 3 counts (−1) for each forward operation 1 change amount of the operation knob unit 1 and (+1) for each reverse operation 1 change amount. May be counted. In this case, if the argument Arg is a positive integer, the rotation direction / change amount analysis processing unit 43 determines that the operation knob unit 1 has rotated in the “reverse direction” by the absolute value of the argument Arg. If Arg is a negative integer, it is determined that the operation knob 1 has rotated in the “forward rotation” direction by the absolute value of the argument Arg.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, the two-phase pulse of the rotary encoder unit 2 is counted by the two-phase pulse counter unit 3, the count value is sampled at a constant period by the control unit 4, and the current sampling value And the previous sampling value are compared, and if there is an operation, the rotation direction and the amount of change are detected based on the result of subtracting the previous sampling value from the current sampling value. The phase pulse counter unit 3 and the control unit 4 provide an effect that the rotary encoder detection device can be configured easily.

It is a block circuit diagram which shows the structure of the rotary encoder detection apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the counter change detection process which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the rotation direction and variation | change_quantity analysis process which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a time chart which shows the example of a count of the two phase pulse counter which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the counter change detection process which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention, and a rotation direction and change amount analysis process.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Operation knob part, 2 Rotary encoder part, 3 Two-phase pulse counter part, 4 Control part, 41 Fixed period process part, 42 Counter change detection process part, 43 Rotation direction and change amount analysis process part.

Claims (1)

An operation knob for rotating the rotary encoder by performing forward and reverse operations;
A rotary encoder unit that outputs an A-phase and B-phase two-phase pulse having a predetermined phase difference representing the rotation of the rotary encoder with an operation change amount of the operation knob unit as an input;
A two-phase pulse counter for obtaining a count value corresponding to the amount of change in forward or reverse operation of the operation knob based on the output two-phase pulse;
A control unit that detects an input state by the operation knob unit based on a count value of the two-phase pulse counter unit;
The controller is
Compared with the count value of the two-phase pulse counter section sampled this time, which was started at a fixed period, and the previously sampled count value stored, and if both count values are equal, there is no operation of the operation knob section On the other hand, if the two count values are not equal, it is determined that there is an operation of the operation knob unit, and the result of subtracting the previously sampled count value from the current sampled count value is output as an argument. A processing unit;
A rotary encoder having a rotation direction / change amount analysis processing unit for detecting a rotation direction of the operation knob unit based on a positive / negative sign of the argument and detecting a change amount of the operation knob unit from an absolute value of the argument Detection device.

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