Integrated  

Motion  Control:    
A  Machine  Builder’s  Secret  Weapon
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Moderator Presenters

Miles Budimir Hack Summer Dan Wiseman

Design World Moog Animatics Moog Animatics
Integrated Motion Control

A MACHINE BUILDER’S
SECRET WEAPON
Moog Animatics
•  Founded 1987
•  Acquired by Moog Components Group in 2011
•  First company to manufacture the integrated servo motor
Why would we call
fully integrated motion control
a secret weapon?
Most common machine design/build problems we hear
about:
•  Machine replication time and costs
•  Programming time
•  Field service
•  Adding additional axes
•  Other?
What is integrated motion control?
Any of the below:
Motor + Drive
Motor + Drive + Encoder
Motor + Drive + Controller
Motor + Drive + Encoder + Controller

What is fully integrated motion control?

Motor + Drive + Encoder + Advanced Controller
 What level of
integrated system is needed?
•  Configurable or preset integrated systems
•  Closed-loop preset integrated systems
•  Fully programmable
•  Master Capable
o  Designed for distributed control to increase machine performance
o  Designed without extra host controller to decrease system cost
 What are the benefits of fully integrated
motion control?
•  Machines are easier to build and quicker to replicate
•  Decreases total build time – program SmartMotor while
the machine’s being built
•  Lower cabling costs
•  Easily add additional axes
•  Simplify field service
 When basic integrated drives are
not enough
•  What if you need more than positioning and torque?
•  What about communication directly to the motor?
•  What about IO handling?
•  What about gearing, camming, advanced mathematics &
more?
•  What about all of these at the same time?
Gearing and Camming
Gearing and Camming
Phase Adjust Mode (Phase Offset Mode)
 A Better Way to Multi-Axis
•  Conventional systems (CAN, DeviceNet, Profibus, etc)
require a host.
o  And associated cost and space

•  With , any motor is a master.

•  All motors independently aware of all other motors
 – Any SmartMotor Can Be Master

•  Easily add additional axes

•  Lower cable costs (only power and comm cable to
each motor)
•  Simplify field service
•  No control cabinet needed for additional axes
 Linear and Cubic Spline Interpolation
•  Complex motion from
small amounts of data
•  Smooth transitions in
CNC applications
•  Complex cam motion
from short cam tables
1,008 Axes
•  Adding additional axes
was easy
•  Just swap out SmartMotor
if one needs service
Integrated Motors & CNC Machines
•  Quickest time to market
•  Easy machine replication
•  Surfboard shaping, woodworking, mini mills,
plasma cutting, dispensing & more
Download SMI (SmartMotor Interface) Development Software
for free at www.animatics.com
 Questions?

Design World Moog Animatics Moog Animatics

Miles Budimir Hack Summer Dan Wiseman
mbudimir@wtwhmedia.com HSummer@moog.animatics.com DWiseman@moog.animatics.com
Twitter: @DW_Motion Phone: 678.567.1951 Phone: 408.748.8721

Moog Animatics
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