Elmo Motion Control a leading provider of motion control technology, will be showcasing its latest innovation during the 2019 Automate tradeshow from April 8-11, 2019 in Chicago … booth #7729. Amongst Elmo’s state-of-the-art products, visitors will find the award-winning Double Gold Twitter servo drive, the Platinum Maestro multi-axis motion controller, and for the first time […]
Stand-Alone Controllers
Controller trends in edge computing and fog computing
Edge computing and greater connectivity are some of the key trends controller manufacturers are seeing in their industry. Here’s what else they told us they’re seeing in the way of tech trends. With respect to the IoT and IIoT, what kinds of capabilities do your components or engineered designs incorporate to support functions related to […]
Controller for voice-coil and single-phase motors features 192 kHz servo rate
Aerotech’s XL4s linear amplifier is designed for closed-loop servo control of voice coil and single-phase motors, eliminating the non-linearities common with PWM amplifiers. The XL4s provides deterministic behavior, auto-identification, and easy software setup and features a multi-core, double-precision, floating-point DSP that controls the digital PID. All parameters are software-settable including control-loop gains and system safety […]
New entry-level PC-based controller from Beckhoff
The new CX7000 Embedded PC from Beckhoff opens up the convenience and efficiency of the TwinCAT 3 software environment to highly compact, DIN rail-mounted controllers. This further enhances the scalability of PC-based control technology from Beckhoff – ranging from mini-PLCs to many-core Industrial PCs. An advanced 400 MHz processor and built-in configurable I/Os mean this […]
New ICs for step-motor control from Performance Motion Devices
Performance Motion Devices now sells new Juno Step Motor Control Integrated Circuits (ICs) in a 56-pin VQFN package. The new Juno Step Motor Control IC is the latest addition to the Juno Velocity and Torque Control IC family … the industry’s first family of compact ICs with full four-quadrant motion control; direct input accepted from […]
New microcontroller-based brushless dc motor controls from American Control Electronics
American Control Electronics (ACE) has introduced the PML Series, a new family of versatile, feature-rich, configurable controls for brushless dc motors. PML drives can control motors that range from 90 to 280 Vdc, up to 5 A/1.5 HP, using either 115 Vac or 230 Vac line sources. On-board trim pots allow operators to quickly set […]
Aerotech debuts scanner controller with 192 kHz servo rate, position-based laser control
Aerotech’s GL4 scanner controller is optimized for Aerotech’s family of AGV scanners to provide industry leading settling times, long-term thermal stability, and micron-level tracking accuracy due to advanced features such as full state feed-forward, 192 kHz servo rates, and look-ahead-based velocity control. The GL4 uses advanced interpolation electronics to provide up to 26-bits of effective […]
Galil launches latest programmable motion controller for servo, stepper motors
The DMC-40×0 motion controller is Galil’s highest performance, stand-alone motion controller. It belongs to Galil’s latest generation motion controller family, which accepts encoder inputs up to 22 MHz, provides servo update rates as high as 32 kHz, and processes commands as fast as 40 microseconds – 10 times the speed of prior generation controllers. The […]
Chip-level connectivity and design sees synergies for motion and robotics
In a recent interview with Brendan O’Dowd, general manager for industrial automation at Analog Devices, we got the chance to hear about new devices — even to the chip level — that allow better integration of robotics into motion designs and machines for automation. Eitel • Design World: We cover motion control as it relates […]
Omron debuts programmable multi-axis controller with fast output speeds
Motion controller output speeds are reaching an industry-leading 50 µsec/5 axes with the introduction of the new CK3M programmable multi-axis controller from Omron. The company combined motion control capability originally developed by Delta Tau Systems (now part of Omron) with its own advanced design technologies inside a compact and streamlined housing. Built with the needs […]
