The newest member of the SMC-series offers now a Closed-Loop with a specially designed new absolute encoder system. Just power-on the system, no homing necessary, you know where you are....learn more
By the way, the new SMC-hydra supports classical rotary and linear encoders 1 Vpp, 2 Phase stepper motors, 2 Phase and 3-Phase direct drives, and standard DC-brush motors. In preparation is a piezo-motor implementation for our PiCo stages. The very powerful processor architecture (Power-PC) gives us a high flexibility offering new features. Modern communication-interface via Ethernet 10/100 Mbit and High-Speed RS-232 simplifies the software integration. The VENUS-3 command-interpreter is based on our well known Venus-1 and Venus-2 interpreters.
Definitions
New Product
Serial / GPIB /
USB / Ethernet
Point to Point Motion
Linear & Circular
Interpolation
Linear or Rotation
Feedback
Motion Server
Torque Motor
Linear Motor
Voice Coil
Piezomotor
Key features
2 axes motion controller
High resolution microstep amplifier for DC brush, 2-phase stepper, 2- and 3-phase linear / torque motors (BLDC), 4-phase piezo motor
Motor type software configurable (except piezo motor)
24 V / 48 V bus-voltage up to 500 W
Motorola power PC with 760 Mips
Closed-loop with absolute encoder (multiturn)
Closed-loop with incremental encoder 1Vpp or RS-422
Encoder based trigger output
Position capture input
Linear interpolation
Ethernet 10/100 MBit
RS-232 up to 115.2 kbaud
VENUS-3 compatible string based command language
Handwheel (Can-Bus)
Joystick (Can-Bus)
Linear 4 Phase Piezo Amplifier (no PWM, for electrical noise sensitiveapplications)