Technosoft is proud to announce a new family of intelligent
servo drives – the iPOS Line – based on a revolutionary design concept offering
higher power density on very compact boards. Modularly designed to cover both low-
and high-volume applications, the first member of this family – iPOS3602
(36 V, 2 A, 75 W) – is a complete motion control and drive
solution packed on only 21 x 54 mm of PCB space. It integrates
all the basic motor control functions, motion control and PLC features on a
remarkably small-sized plug-in module. Equipped with CAN/CANopen interfaces
(optionally, additional EtherCAT interface also available), the iPOS drive
controls any rotary or linear brushless, DC brush or step motor.
iPOS3602 is able to execute complex motion programs directly
at drive level, using its built-in motion programmer and the high-level
Technosoft Motion Language (TML), or it can operate as an intelligent EtherCAT
and CANopen slave. In simple applications iPOS3602 works as a single-axis
motion controller and drive in stand-alone mode, autonomously running the
program residing in its non-volatile memory. In systems that request a host,
the iPOS drive operates as an intelligent slave executing motion sequences
triggered by input lines, or commands received via RS-232 or CAN bus. The
motion capabilities of the iPOS card include position or speed profiles
(trapezoidal, S-curve), 3rd order PVT and 1st order PT interpolation,
electronic gearing and camming, analog or digital external reference,
complemented with the cyclic synchronous position, speed and torque modes
specific to EtherCAT. This enables you to reduce both the development time of
complex applications, and the master’s task, by calling complex motion
functions, pre-stored in the drive memory, or by triggering their execution via
I/O signals.
This drive can operate with a wide choice of feedback
devices. Incremental and Sin/Cos encoders, digital or linear Halls are
supported by default. SSI, BiSS, EnDAT absolute encoders and resolver
interfaces are available through an additional extension.
The iPOS3602 board’s flexible, modular design, as well as
the intelligence embedded onto its miniature size, make it a valuable motion
control solution for all applications that need high-precision control, greater
design adaptability, simplified maintenance and limited space integration.