The integration of a barrier-free safety concept into the control circuit of the hexapod, e.g. of a PILZ safety light curtain, ensures finger, hand, and body protection depending on the required safety level.
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How an Industrial Safety Concept Can Be Combined with a Hexapod
Finger, hand, or body protection in automated production processes
Choosing the Right Hexapod Model
Software Simulates Real Application Situation
Which hexapod is suitable for a specific application and how do external factors influence the limits of the workspace and load? With the hexapod simulation tool you can check even before making a decision on which model to buy if a hexapod is suitable for the positioning task at hand and if it is, which model exactly is suitable.
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PIMag®: Voice Coil, Linear, and Torque Motors Developed In-House
An Interview Gives Insight Why PI also Uses Its Own Motors to Offer Optimized Customer Solutions
For positioning and scanning systems equipped with magnetic direct drives, PI relies mainly on strong suppliers from the motor industry. With the Driven by PIMag® brand name PI is increasingly strengthening its expertise in motor design, construction, and manufacturing. Dietrich Wins, Product Marketing Manager for Motorized Positioners at PI, explains the motivation behind.
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Stable and Precise Positioning of Mechanical and Optomechanical Components
Piezo-Based Linear Actuators Provide Reliable and Automated Alignment of the Beam Path of Optical Assemblies
How can the beam path of optical assemblies be adjusted with high resolution and stability? Piezo-based linear actuators provide reliable and automated alignment of mechanical and optomechanical components in experiments They offer a lifetime of more than a billion steps, a step size of 20 nm and a holding force of > 100 N.
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How Can the Advantages of Hexapods Be Easily Used in Automation?
Learn in the White Paper "Controlling Hexapods via Ethercat<sup>®</sup>" How Integration into the Process Environment Works
Parallel-kinematic hexapod robots can move and position tools, workpieces, and complex components with weights ranging from a few grams to several hundred kilograms or even several tons in any spatial orientation with high precision. The PI hexapod controller with integrated EtherCAT interface now makes it very easy for users to integrate hexapods into automation systems without it being necessary to perform challenging kinematic transformations.
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PIOne Sensors – High Performance for Nanopositioning Systems
An In-house Development for Precision over Large Travel Ranges
For conventional nanopositioning with piezo actuators and large travel ranges from 1 mm, incremental position sensors such as PIOne are used instead of capacitive sensors. Dr. Axel Grabowski, Head of Sensor Development at PI and developer of PIOne, explains the advantages of the the incremental position sensor with maximum resolution and moderate energy consumption.
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How is the Still or Video Image Quality of Cameras Reliably Measured and Evaluated?
DXOMARK Uses a PI Hexapod to Simulate Camera Movements in Image Stabilization Testing
Taking sharp pictures despite poor lighting conditions, taking snapshots without blurring, recognizing traffic signs in driver assistance systems, or identifying dangerous situations in surveillance systems - all of this is possible today with the help of modern cameras. But how good is the still and video image quality of a camera or smartphone?
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Precision and Throughput for Electronics Manufacturing Applications
Find high-performance positioning solutions in the new brochure “Motion Systems for Electronics Manufacturing”
PI offers positioning systems for different production steps, for example to place, process or test parts and components.
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