integrated motion control – a machine builder’s secret weapon
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Integrated Motion Control: A Machine Builder’s Secret Weapon
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Before We Start
Moderator
Miles Budimir Design World
Presenters
Dan Wiseman Moog Animatics
Hack Summer Moog Animatics
Integrated Motion Control
A MACHINE BUILDER’S SECRET WEAPON
Moog Animatics • Founded 1987 • Acquired by Moog Components Group in 2011 • First company to manufacture the integrated servo motor
Why would we call fully integrated motion control a secret weapon?
Most common machine design/build problems we hear about: • Machine replication time and costs • Programming time • Field service • Adding additional axes • Other?
What is integrated motion control? Any of the below: Motor + Drive Motor + Drive + Encoder Motor + Drive + Controller Motor + Drive + Encoder + Controller
What is fully integrated motion control? Motor + Drive + Encoder + Advanced Controller
What level of
integrated system is needed? • Configurable or preset integrated systems • Closed-loop preset integrated systems • Fully programmable • Master Capable
o Designed for distributed control to increase machine performance o Designed without extra host controller to decrease system cost
What are the benefits of fully integrated
motion control? • Machines are easier to build and quicker to replicate • Decreases total build time – program SmartMotor while
the machine’s being built • Lower cabling costs • Easily add additional axes • Simplify field service
When basic integrated drives are not enough
• What if you need more than positioning and torque? • What about communication directly to the motor? • What about IO handling? • What about gearing, camming, advanced mathematics &
more? • What about all of these at the same time?
Gearing and Camming
Gearing and Camming
Phase Adjust Mode (Phase Offset Mode)
A Better Way to Multi-Axis • Conventional systems (CAN, DeviceNet, Profibus, etc)
require a host. o And associated cost and space
• With , any motor is a master. • All motors independently aware of all other motors
– Any SmartMotor Can Be Master
• Easily add additional axes • Lower cable costs (only power and comm cable to
each motor) • Simplify field service • No control cabinet needed for additional axes
Linear and Cubic Spline Interpolation • Complex motion from
small amounts of data • Smooth transitions in
CNC applications • Complex cam motion
from short cam tables
1,008 Axes • Adding additional axes
was easy • Just swap out SmartMotor
if one needs service
Integrated Motors & CNC Machines • Quickest time to market • Easy machine replication • Surfboard shaping, woodworking, mini mills,
plasma cutting, dispensing & more
Download SMI (SmartMotor Interface) Development Software for free at www.animatics.com
Questions?
Design World Miles Budimir [email protected] Twitter: @DW_Motion
Moog Animatics Hack Summer [email protected] Phone: 678.567.1951
Moog Animatics Dan Wiseman [email protected] Phone: 408.748.8721
Moog Animatics YouTube http://www.youtube.com/smartmotor Facebook http://www.facebook.com/smartmotor
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