Hexapod with real-time controller under LabVIEW^TM

Micromega Dynamics now offers its "Active Steering & Structural Damping Interface" with an open controller programmable under the National Instruments LabVIEW Real-Time^TM environment. The "Active Steering & Structural Damping Interface" consists of a stiff active six degree-of-freedom hexapod (Steward platform with cubic architecture). Each leg consists of a linear piezoelectric actuator, a collocated force sensor and flexible tips for the connection to the base plates. The hexapod can be used as damping interface connecting arbitrary structures, microvibration isolator, or high precision pointing mechanism.

Description

Advantages

• Graphical Programming with LabVIEW^TM and LabVIEW RT^TM through intuitive Windows interfaces that let you concentrate on your actual control design task.

• Numerous controls, monitoring, displays, signal analysis, and communication tools provided through LabVIEW^TM libraries let you implement your application easily and evaluate system behavior.

• LabVIEW RT^TM automatically generates code that runs under the Windows Real Time Extension (RTX^TM by Venturcom) from block diagrams; this mechanism is fully transparent to the user.

• System is supplied "ready-to-go" with a desktop PC pre-loaded with Windows XP, its Real-Time Extension, the LabVIEW development environment, as well as programming examples

Delivery

• Desktop PC equipped with I/O board and fully loaded with LabVIEW real-time development environment, as well as programming examples
• Drive and monitoring unit including 6 low-noise charge amplifiers and 6 piezo drivers
• Hexapod
• Interconnecting cables

Options

• Other hexapod strokes and loads
• Industrial Computer (in place of the desktop PC)
• Additional I/O or external links
• Custom application programming
• Current drivers for charge control of piezoelectric actuators