Software provides dynamic nonlinear motion control

Nyquist Industrial Control has introduced an integrated package of software tools for its recently launched NYCe4000 motion control system.

Nyquist Industrial Control has introduced an integrated package of software tools for its recently launched NYCe4000 motion control system.

One of the most important new software tools is "User-Definable Control", which offers the opportunity to develop optimal control loops and control complex mechanical systems in much less time than was previously possible.

With User-Definable Control complex control loops can be quickly developed using predefined control blocks to connect to the standard Nyquist functionality.

The software allows for custom algorithm development, and the user-defined control algorithm code is automatically generated and downloaded to any controller.

This enables the new software to provide dynamic control for complex nonlinear motion control.

User-Definable Control will help machine builders to get new machines to market faster than ever.

Nyquist's software uniquely offers full support for Simulink - the dynamic simulation toolbox of Matlab, a powerful mathematics program that is the industry standard for technical computing and the automatic choice for many machine builders.

Simulink has an extensive standard library of function blocks that Nyquist's software translates into a functioning embedded controller, whereas existing software is capable of supporting only their own proprietary and inevitably much smaller libraries.

Beyond its extensiveness and wide acceptance, a further key benefit of this design environment is that it is graphical.

Blocks are simply connected together in order to design and implement new control loops.

Simulink has now been extended with a toolbox with which designs can be applied to a real-time industrial (OEM) control product.

Users can design and tune a specific control algorithm in a simulation environment, and then test it and fine-tune it on the final machine.

With Nyquist's multi-axis controller, the new software enables users to apply multiple control loops, ie a different control loop can be assigned to each axis, or any chosen combination of axes combined in one diagram.

This offers a key advantage over existing software that can only support one diagram at a time.

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