Product category:
Industrial Drives/Controls
News Release from: Yaskawa Electric Europe | Subject: MP940 controller
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 June 2000
Motion controller makes servo
programming simple
Commonly encountered problems in servo motion control applications have been overcome by what is described by Yaskawa Electric as its simplest yet most advanced motion controller solution ever.
Commonly encountered problems in servo motion control applications have been overcome by what is described by Yaskawa Electric as its simplest yet most advanced motion controller solution ever The new MP940 controller is a 1.5 axis device that is designed for use with Yaskawa's own compact, high performance Sigma II servo motors
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 5 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Yaskawa's new MP940 "Plug In" 1.5 axis motion controller is designed for use with the full range of Yaskawa's high performance Sigma II servo drives and motors
Yaskawa's MP940 provides programmable acceleration/deceleration profiles with cycloidal motion profiles that provide uniform loading over the entire accel/decel pattern.
This eliminates shock or snatch at the transition points overcoming the possibility of, for instance breakages in web applications.
A "jerk reduction" feature also allows users to view the actual motion profiles and selectively edit out any shock components.
Because the controller has an extremely fast 500?s position update, rapid settling time and continuous path generation, the system increases accuracy and feed rates.
Throughput can therefore be increased in machine applications without sacrificing quality.
An electronic cam with phase adjustment and registration enables independent axes to be precisely synchromeshed.
This eliminates the need for cumbersome and expensive mechanical cam boxes.
Digital gearing allows independently driven axes to be perfectly synchronised as if they were rigidly connected.
This permits flexible positioning of drive components.
High density serial encoding allows 17-bit incremental or absolute position resolution of 131,072 pulses per revolution.
The MP940's common mode noise rejection overcomes the effects of electrical noise and enables cabling over 50m between components in the system.
The MP940 is programmed using Yaskawa's powerful MotionWorks Plus software which is an intuitive icon based interface with wizards and menus to make programming simple.
A visual flow chart is used to set up applications and the software can handle controller set up, servo set up and tuning, as well as variable management and communications options.
Tools for troubleshooting and diagnostics are also included.
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