DMC Digital Motion Controller

Since the mid-1980s, digital motion controllers have made remarkable achievements along with the rapid development of semiconductor manufacturing, computer manufacturing, numerical control machine tools, industrial robots, and other industrial machinery. In some industrialized countries, a new type has been formed. industry. This is due to the fact that he provides application engineers with a full-featured, flexible, and easy-to-use control platform for all types of mechatronics equipment control applications, so that application engineers can use existing resources from computers or industrial control computers. Build a variety of specialized controllers.
In recent years, with the rapid development of processing and manufacturing, motion controllers have been widely used. There are more and more brands and types of motion controllers that can be purchased on the market, such as DMC series products of American GALIL Corporation and PMAC products of DELTA TAU Corporation. ,Danaher MEI's EXMP/EMP products, Parker Acroloop's ACR9000 products, UK TRIO's MC series products, Baldor Optimized's Nextmove products, etc. Among the many brands, I think GALIL is the leader. Since the company invented the world's first micro-processing multi-axis digital motion controller in 1983, 500,000 DMC products have been operating around the world. . From the first generation of 8-bit microprocessors to the more powerful RISC/DSP processors, which have undergone five generations of development and passed down from generation to generation, they have formed a large product family with independent, PCI bus, cPCI bus, The structure of PC/104 bus, VME bus, ISA bus, etc., can be selected from 1 to 8 axes in any series.
The GALIL digital motion controller uses 32 bits to tell the MCU to provide application engineers with many motion control methods, such as fixed, JOG, linear, circular interpolation, profiling/teaching, electronic gear, gantry synchronous drive, electronic cam, etc. Spiral, tangent follow and other functions. The dual position feedback interface function eliminates mechanical commutation gaps and ball screw discrete errors. In addition to the zero return, limit, emergency stop, and high-speed latch (0.1μs) event trigger interfaces, general-purpose digital I/O and high-resolution (12/16-bit) analog input interfaces are also provided. DMC digital motion controllers also provide interface with servo, stepper and hydraulic motors. You can use any combination to achieve the best configuration of the control system. The multi-tasking function can execute 8 applications at the same time; the controller itself has application programs, parameters, variables, and array element storage functions that can operate normally even if it is off the host controller. GALIL provides a powerful 2-character command set that can be directly programmed in general applications, fast, simple, and supports QNX, DOS, Windows 3.x, 95, 98, 2000, NT, Linux and other operating systems. In addition, it also provides a full range of software tools, ActiveX, DLLs, enabling users to develop unique interpersonal interfaces and advanced control algorithms based on this; it can accept the .DXF format generated by AUTOCAD and HPGL generated. PLT format files; WSDK software with motion control parameter self-adjustment function enables the user to automatically adapt filter PID parameters in the Windows environment. Speed ​​feedforward and acceleration feedforward control are useful for applications that require a system with fast response.