Motion Applications

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Automation and Robotics, Semiconductor, motion application, Lab Automation, Mobile Robotics, Industrial, Medical Devices

Robotic Gripper Control

Robotic Gripper Control specifically means control methods associated with getting a robotic 'hand' to grip an object safely - applying neither too much or too little force. Too much and the object may be crushed or damaged, and too little and the object may be dropped during robot arm motion. Looking at this problem more generally though this combined position and torque control problem is relevant to a broad category of applications including screw cap applicators, cobots, press fit equipment, surgical robotics, and more.

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Automation and Robotics, Semiconductor, motion application, Lab Automation, Industrial

Gantry Control

Gantries are mechanical devices that move orthogonally in three dimensions. They form the basis of a wide variety of systems that process liquids, biological samples, industrial materials, and print, cut, or otherwise operate on materials.  Gantry Control involves the synchronized control of motion functions such as point-to-point transfers, path following, pipette/cuvette management, and pick and place operation.

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Performance Motion Devices
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Medical Device Equipment, Automation and Robotics, motion application, Industrial, Medical Devices

Pan & Tilt Pointing

Pan & tilt pointing means motion control of a mechanical system that can ‘pan’ (rotate around a vertical axis) and tilt (rotate around a horizontal axis). There are a large variety of machines that use a pan & tilt pointing mechanism including security cameras, laser pointing systems, fire control systems, film production equipment, radar control systems, and more.

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Automation and Robotics, Semiconductor, motion application, Lab Automation, Mobile Robotics, Industrial, Medical Devices

CAM Profiling

CAM profiling is a general purpose motion technique utilizing a pre-stored look-up table of desired positions driven by an incoming command encoder datastream. CAMs are especially useful for encoding profiles which don’t follow a standard envelop such as a trapezoidal or parabolic profile. While originally used just to replicate mechanical rotating CAMs, electronic CAM profiling has grown to provide an array of profile generation and position compensation functions.

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Performance Motion Devices
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Medical Device Equipment, Automation and Robotics, Semiconductor, motion application, Lab Automation

Microscope Control

Microscope control means motion control of automated microscopes, also called automated digital microscopes or more broadly automated microscopy. Such systems generally contain three dimensions of very precisely controlled motion; an XY table that moves the sample and a Z axis which focuses the lens/sensor element. Automated microscopes are a vital part of a broad array of equipment such as blood analyzers, biological and chemical automated assay machines, semiconductor capital equipment, photonics, and much more.

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Performance Motion Devices
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Medical Device Equipment, Automation and Robotics, Semiconductor, motion application, Lab Automation, Mobile Robotics, Industrial

Indexer Control

Indexers, sometimes also called front end loaders, are general purpose devices that operate in the vertical dimension and form the basis of storage and retrieval systems as well devices such as Semiconductor SMIF-pod access systems. The focus of this motion application will be control of the vertical axis motion, but many storage and retrieval systems couple the vertical axis with a robotic arm or actuator to deliver the carried object to its final storage location.

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Performance Motion Devices
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