Tech Briefs Magazine - April 2022 - MD-20

Modular Robot Platform
Festo (Islandia, NY) has introduced the Modular
Gantry Robot platform for laboratory-based automated
liquid handling. Modular gantries feature
an open-source motion and fluidic API with
Python, Java, and .NET/C# drivers. Utilizing a library
of common drivers reduces the learning
curve and enables integrators to easily develop an
optimized control strategy for their machine. The flexibility and ability
to customize eliminates the need for OEMs to purchase a generic machine
and then adapt their test or assay solution onto it. The Modular
Gantry Robot platform follows a Lego-like building block strategy of
hundreds of interoperable components designed to be assembled with
simple hand tools. Other modules can include dispense head, pipettes,
capper/decapper, and bar code reader.
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Safe Monitoring Crane Systems
To achieve a fast, safe and efficient material
flow, automated crane systems must
be controlled reliably and extremely precisely.
For reliable monitoring of crane
positions Micro-Epsilon (Ortenburg,
Germany) offers the optoNCDT ILR2250
laser distance sensors. Two sensors are positioned at one end of the
main girder of an overhead crane and measure to millimeter accuracy
on a white target board. The first sensor detects distance changes of
the main girder in the range of 0.1 to 100 m in x-direction. The second
sensor continuously measures the movements of the trolley between
0.1 and 25 m in the y-direction. The high-performance optoNCDT
ILR2250 laser distance sensors are used wherever large measuring
ranges and high accuracy are required.
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Safety Integrated Controller
AutomationDirect (Cumming, GA) has
added new ReeR MOSAIC safety controller
components for expanded capability. The
Reer MOSAIC (MOdular SAfety Integrated
Controller) makes it easy to manage safety
systems and sensors. It is modular, expandable,
and configurable for managing all safety functions of a single
machine or an entire plant. The new MOSAIC-MV series speed monitoring
expansion modules are an excellent addition that allow speed
monitoring of rotating machinery via proximity sensors or TTL, HTL,
and SIN/COS encoder inputs.
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Comprehensive Control
Pleiffer Vacuum, Inc. (Nashua, NH) has introduced
the OmniControl unit that allows
the comprehensive control of a complete vacuum
system using just one device. It combines
the control of the total pressure with the control
of the vacuum pumps. The unit communicates
with products that support the Pfeiffer Vacuum RS-485 protocol (e.g.
HiPace, HiScroll, HiLobe, MVP and DigiLine). This makes it possible to
exchange and process data between various Pfeiffer Vacuum products
without any difficulty and without having to invest in additional devices.
The 3.5 " touch screen with an intuitive user interface ensures easy and
convenient control of the vacuum system.
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Automated Mobile Robots
The autonomous mobile robots
(AMR) from Evocortex (Nuremberg,
Germany) require absolutely no preinstalled
guidance system to determine
their location and find the right way. They orient themselves simply using
the irregularities in the hall floor. Such irregularities can be found even
on typical smooth concrete floors and are registered by the robot's
high-resolution camera. The camera is located on the underside of the
vehicle, captures an area of 10 × 10 centimeters and uses the image data
to produce the equivalent of a fingerprint of the hall floor. Behind this
ingenious system is the self-developed Localization Module (ELM) from
Evocortex. The AMRs can optionally be equipped with additional LIDAR
sensors on one or two fronts. These scan the room in the direction of
travel and detect obstacles - including those that are moving, such as
people who cross the travel path.
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Motion Smoothing
Teknic's (Rochester, NY) Regressive AutoSpline
(RAS) is available in Teknic's ClearPath
integrated servos. RAS goes beyond traditional
motion smoothing algorithms such as S-curving or
cosine smoothing by limiting the jerk and the
jerk-derivative, resulting in incredibly smooth motion
profiles. It can be configured with just a mouse click. Smoother
acceleration profiles and reduced vibration mean less wear on the
mechanics, longer component life, and lower audible noise. The RAS
is available in every ClearPath integrated servo, which are compatible
with a wide range of controllers including PLCs, microcontrollers,
Windows, or Linux P.
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Ethernet IO Monitoring
Teracom (Ruse, Bulgaria) announced the
availability of the affordable and easy to integrate
TCW241 Ethernet IO Module for a wide variety
of ethernet IO monitoring and control applications.
Supporting Modbus TCP/IP connectivity, the device
has four digital inputs, four analog inputs, and four relays. Its
1-Wire interface supports up to eight 1-Wire sensors (with 16 parameters)
for measuring temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, AC or DC current,
etc. The relays of the Ethernet IO module can be activated either remotely
or locally. So-called remote activation includes a friendly WEB interface or
M2M protocols. The local activation is possible from a schedule, the status
of a single parameter, or by custom-made functions. The function can include
up to four parameters. For advanced relay scheduling, the module
includes a real-time clock for time server synchronization.
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Edge Computers
The Cincoze (Taipei, Taiwan) GOLD series
is a range of GPU computers designed
from the ground up to meet the needs of
large-scale image processing, machine vision,
and machine learning applications in
AIoT. The series includes the GP-3000 and GM-1000, which are selectable
according to application requirements like size, performance,
I/O, functionality, and future upgradeability. The GP-3000 series is a
GPU edge computer that supports 720W total system power. The GP3000
series supports 720W total system power.
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