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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: LG Motion | Subject: Agile Systems eval kits
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 20 June 2006
Eval kits check out motion controllers
Agile Systems offers evaluation kits to help customers determine performance and functional requirements for their motion control applications.
Agile Systems, the Canadian based designer and manufacturer of digital motion control and distributed servo drives, uses patented digitalPower technology to create small form factor, standard and customised products for both OEMs and individual applications Agile, which is represented in the UK by LG Motion, has a wide range of products including FireWire, Interbus and CAN networked drives as well as encoderless feedback drives enabling servo performance from conventional stepper motors
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 31 Oct 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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All current products are covered with evaluation kit options including the microMAX series, a FireWire networked and DSP based single-axis motion controller with integrated 900W peak servo amplifier.
Built for direct mounting on robotics and automation equipment, microMax combines daisychained FireWire networking and power cabling supplemented with localised motor and feedback connection.
The microMAX is quickly set up and installed using DPWin, Agilie's PC-based graphical environment for configuration, tuning and analysis.
Motion programming is completed with MAXCLib, an ANSI C/C++ library and application development program with motion and machine control commands.
An evaluation kit is also available for Agile's new Silentstep - an advanced stepper motor drive and motion control system with patent-pending sensorless commutation, providing a significant increase in motor speed and useable torque with no position loss and up to 75% less audible noise.
As well as for use on new applications, Silentstep may be retrofitted to existing stepper motors to yield servomotor performance for legacy systems with improved throughput, much lower noise and significant cost benefit.
LG Motion provide in-house design, manufacture, service and application support for its wide range of motion control and positioning systems.
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