Posts Tagged ‘Motion Control’

The Prodigy family of motion cards now has board–level C–Motion® programming, expanded design flexibility, and extended connectivity options.

Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD) announces the newest addition to its latest advancement in the Prodigy® family of motion cards, the Prodigy/CME PCI card. Just like PMD’s PC/104 and Stand–Alone card options, the new programmable PCI card provides machine designers the capability to download and run motion programs directly on the cards. This new capability off–loads the PC host and increases the flexibility to distribute motion programs throughout the machine.

The Prodigy/CME PCI card is an ideal solution for demanding scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications. These motion control cards support multiple motor types, including DC brush, brushless DC, microstepping, and step motors. Prodigy/CME PCI cards are available in 1, 2, 3, and 4–axis versions and are designed in surface mount technology. PMD’s development software ships with each card, and includes Pro–Motion® GUI, C–Motion® API, and VB–Motion®.

C–Motion® Engine: Programming is made easy with C–Motion®, a source code library of motion commands for development of C/C++ programs that run on the Prodigy Motion Cards. PMD’s C–Motion® Engine stores and independently runs the downloaded motion control code on the Prodigy Motion Cards.

Both Prodigy card formats provide high performance board–level motion control for scientific, industrial, robotic, and general purpose automation applications. These cards support multiple motor types including DC brush, brushless DC, step, and microstepping motors, and are available in 1, 2, 3, and 4–axis versions. Based on PMD’s industry leading Magellan® Motion Processor, the Prodigy cards provide user–selectable profile modes including S–curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring, and electronic gearing. Servo loop compensation utilizes a full 32–bit position error, PID with velocity and acceleration feedforward, integration limit and dual biquad filters for sophisticated control of complex loads. Prodigy Motion Cards come with serial, CAN and Ethernet communications options.

For further details please check out the Prodigy Data Sheets

Many companies have third-party controllers and networks installed and Ethernet/IP is a common network in the United States and is growing in popularity in Canada and Latin America.

Although it is a fact that the family of CC-Link networks surpasses Ethernet/IP by installed nodes and global acceptance, there is still a need for Mitsubishi to have the ability to install controllers into facilities with existing Ethernet/IP networks.

The ETH-1000 is now available and allows our standalone motion controller to be placed on an Ethernet/IP network. Now the ETH-1000 communication gateway has been enhanced to allow MELSEC PLCs and PACs (Q, iQ and FX) to connect and share information between Ethernet/IP compatible PLCs. The gateway has a web interface to configure the device-to-tag map. No changes to either PLC program are required. Once this simple step is done the ETH-1000 will enable MELSEC controllers to send and receive information to and from Rockwell Automation, Omron and other third-party controllers that use Ethernet/IP for network connectivity. by Sloan Zupan

For further details please check out the ETH-1000 Product Brochure