Category: Aerotech

Suite Engineering Software

Aerotech’s A3200 Motion Composer Suite is a feature-rich

engineering software package. This software allows each member

of your design team to contribute in setting up the controller and

networked drives as per your application’s requirements.

Simply connect to the controller using the Motion Composer

Suite. Then use several user-friendly tools to set up each control

loop on the drive and the controller-specific parameters.

Programming for Performance

The A3200 Motion Composer Suite includes the Motion Composer

IDE — a feature-rich programming environment for developing

real-time application code. The Motion Composer IDE allows you

to quickly build, debug, load, and run real-time application code

on the controller.

A3200-iPC Industrial PC

The A3200 SMC is available pre-installed and optimized on

the Aerotech A3200-iPC industrial PC. This PC is fully tested

and optimized. The A3200-iPC is ready to work right out of the

box, allowing fast integration of your value-added process. Get

more information including specifications, CADs, and ordering

information on our A3200-iPC web page.

Extended Architecture with Fieldbus Support

EtherCAT I/O and PROFINET I/O are each tightly integrated into

the A3200 automation machine controller. With the simple

addition of Hilscher PCIe card, either EtherCAT or PROFINET I/O

devices can be configured and mapped with meaningful I/O tag

names. 

WAGO I/O is tightly integrated into the A3200 automation

machine controller and devices can be connected to a PC via a

standard Ethernet port. Modular devices can be stacked together

as needed and can be configured and mapped with meaningful

I/O tag names. These tags are directly available for use in the

AeroBasic™ programming language and throughout the Motion

Composer Suite.

More Than Just Motion

Modern machines do more than move. Vision systems, robotics,

laser control, sensor integration, and much more must come

together to control complex automation solutions.

The A3200 software-based machine controller (SMC) runs directly

on an industrial PC, side-by-side with other automation control

systems, requiring no additional hardware.

Aerotech Machine Controller A3200 Программное обеспечение Тип 2

Flexible, High-Performance System Architecture

The A3200 SMC is a controller capable of managing a network

of up to 32 axes of motion without sacrificing performance.

With a wide offering of drive hardware, each axis of motion

can be either a servomotor, stepper motor, voice coil motor,

galvanometer motor, or piezoelectric actuator. The controller is

high performance — producing native trajectory rates of up to 48

kHz without sacrificing other performance criteria.

Our controller enables the system’s high performance because it

manages a distributed control architecture. Whereas centralized

control architectures close the servo and current loops on a

central controller, the Automation 3200 platform closes the

position, velocity, and current loops on each individual network

drive (Ndrive), avoiding processing bottlenecks. The A3200 SMC

uses a real-time operating system that runs with higher priority

than Windows®. The PC executes programs and sends the

position commands to the Ndrive via the IEEE-1394 (FireWire®) or

HyperWire glass-optical-fiber high-speed serial bus.

These processes include:

• Infinite Field of View (IFOV) coordination of galvo scan-head

and servo stage axes

• Position Synchronized Output (PSO) distance-based process

triggering

• Non-delineated, RS-274 G-code integration into our

AeroBasic language

These programming constructions fit seamlessly into a language

that includes standard program flow and mathematical concepts.

Powerful Multi-Axis Trajectory Generation

At the heart of our controller is the ability to translate commands

into the industry’s best trajectory. Our controller includes the

Aerotech motion engine — a powerful piece of technology that

differentiates Aerotech control from other motion providers. This

technology translates what you programmed into a multi-axis

synchronized and coordinated trajectory. This trajectory is sent

out over the industry’s most flexible motion control bus.

Aerotech’s FireWire Bus®, still available on A3200, paved the

way for the new HyperWire fiber-optic bus. The nearly jitter-free

nature of both FireWire and HyperWire preserves the integrity

of up to 32 axes of synchronized motion control trajectory

points. They both also allow servomotors, galvo scan-head,

hexapods, piezos, voice coil, and stepper motor control to exist 

on a common bus communicating to a common controller and trajectory generator.

Expert Level Power — Accessible to All

The power of the A3200 Software-Based Motion Controller (SMC)

stems from the two pillars it was built upon: powerful features and usability.

The A3200 SMC is powerful. We have gone to great lengths to

design a controller that excels in delivering precision. Swimming

against popular trends, we develop our controller technology

from the ground up, allowing us to provide the most powerful

controller in the industry. We strategically build these solutions

on top of high-end, reliable, stable, industrial-grade technologies.

For this reason, nobody can duplicate the multi-axis coordination

and precision of the A3200.

Программный контроллер станка Aerotech A3200

The A3200 controller is programmed with our own programming

language, AeroBasic, and set of libraries. Our A3200 software

includes a development environment in which programs are

developed, compiled, and loaded on the controller. By developing

our own language and environment, we develop our own

concepts and processes.