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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Technosoft | Subject: Easy Motion Studio
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 23 January 2006
Software aids motor setup
Software platform helps set up drives and motors and motion programming thanks to built-in motion controller.
Technosoft has introduced the Easy Motion Studio software platform for setting up drives and motors and motion programming The software can execute complex motion without requiring an external controller, thanks to its built-in motion controller
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Motors can be controlled with the 100us speed and position control feature.
Users can design custom trajectories with PVT and PT interpolation.
With electronic gearing and absolute or relative cams, they can simultaneously control motors with different speeds and build synchronised motion for drives and motors.
The users always know what happens in the drives and motors network through the task confirmation via messages feature.
The set-up software uses two dialogues - drive dialogue and motor dialogue.
This is recommended when motion programming and control are done via an external device, such as an industrial PC or PLC, using motion libraries.
The output is a collection of setup data that can be downloaded into a drive or motor EEPROM or saved on a PC.
At power-on, the setup data saved in the EEPROM is used for initialisation.
The complete setup information can be retrieved from a previously programmed drive or motor.
The motion wizard provides a simple, graphical way of creating motion programs written in Technosoft Motion Language (TML).
The wizard automatically generates all the TML instructions, so users do not need to learn or write any TML code.
TML simplifies complex applications by distributing the intelligence between the master and the drives or motors.
Thus, instead of trying to command each step of an axis motion from the master, it is possible to program the motor to execute complex tasks, and to inform the master when these tasks have been completed.
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