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Brushless DC Motor Controller MOTION CONTROL > Documentation


Brushless DC Motor Controller    DOCUMENTATION


  • Uses PMD’s advanced Magellan™ Motion Processor
  • PCI and PC/104 configurations
  • Available in 1 ,2, 3, and 4-axis versions
  • Supports DC brush, brushless DC, step, and microstepping motors
  • S-curve, trapezoidal, electronic gearing, and external profile modes
  • PC/104 (ISA), PCI-bus, CANbus, or serial communications
  • Separately programmable acceleration and deceleration values
  • Profile and servo changes on-the-fly
  • Advanced PID filter with feedforward and dual biquad filters
  • Watchdog timer
  • High speed loop rate: µ50 sec/axis
  • Incremental encoder (8 Mcounts/sec) and parallel word encoder (160 Mcounts/sec)
  • Dual loop encoder inputs
  • Pulse & direction output up to 5 Mpulses/sec
  • 6-step (Hall-based) and sinusoidal commutation
  • High-speed motion trace for servo tuning diagnostics (up to 40 KB)
  • High precision 16-bit DAC output to amplifier
  • Real-time breakpoints (2 per axis)
  • General purpose digital I/O and analog inputs
  • Two directional limit switches, index input, and home indicator per axis
  • Includes Pro-Motion, C-Motion and VB-Motion development software

 

The Prodigy™ Motion Cards provide high performance board level motion control for scientific, automation, industrial,and robotic applications. Available in PCI and PC/104 configurations,these cards support multiple motor types including DC brush, brushless DC, step, and microstepping motors, and are available in 1, 2, 3, and 4-axis versions.

Based on PMD’s Magellan Motion Processor, the Prodigy cards provide user selectable profile modes including S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring, and electronic gearing. The card accepts input parameters such as position, velocity, acceleration, and jerk from the host and generates a corresponding trajectory on-the-fly. Servo loop compensation utilizes a full32-bit position error, PID with velocity and acceleration feedforward, integration limit and dual biquad filters for sophisticated control of complex loads.

Working with the Prodigy Cards, PMD’s Pro-Motion® GUI makes it easy to analyze system performance while C-Motion® and VB-Motion® allow you to develop your own application using C/C++ or Visual Basic.

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