Aerotech,c. Product
Member Since 2014
Aerotech designs and manufactures the highest performance motion control and positioning systems for customers in industry, government, science, and research institutions around the world. Aerotech's precision motion control products provide the critical performance for today's demanding applications in markets such as aerospace and defense, medical device and life sciences, semiconductor and flat panel, photonics, automotive, data storage, laser processing, electronic manufacturing and test, assembly, research and development, and others requiring high precision, high-throughput motion solutions.
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Controls and Industrial ControlsControls and Industrial Controls
- Closed-loop servo control of voice-coil and single-phase motors
- 192 kHz servo-loop update rate
- Customizable current-loop configurations available to meet your application requirement
- Fiber-optic interface
Aerotech´s XL4s linear amplifier is designed for closed-loop servo control of voice coil and single-phase motors, eliminating the non-linearities common with PWM amplifiers. The XL4s provides deterministic behavior, auto-identification, and easy software setup and features a multi-core, double-precision, floating-point DSP that controls the digital PID. All parameters are software-settable including control-loop gains and system safety functions. With the XL4s, you can achieve industry-leading settling times, long-term thermal stability, and sub-micron-level tracking accuracy with advanced features such as full state feed-forward, 192 kHz servo rates, and look-ahead-based velocity control.
The XL4s exceeds other single-phase motor controllers due to its industry-leading servo rate of 192 kHz. This directly correlates to better tracking errors and part quality at high-speeds in applications such as fast-tool servos, high-dynamic optical focusing axes, and high-speed pick-and-place machines. The XL4s has an encoder interpolation feature, dedicated analog and digital I/O, fiber-optic interface, and separate power connections for motor and control supply voltages.
Unlike other fast tool servo controllers, the XL4s packaging allows it to be panel-mounted in a machine enclosure, resulting in a smaller machine footprint and requiring less overall floor space.
