Test & Inspection
Piezo Controller Thermal Stability Comparison
Piezo controller design can have a significant effect on thermal stability, causing excessive error in precision motion applications. In this technical note, we briefly describe some techniques used for controlling thermal effects and compare the thermal stability of Aerotech’s piezo control electronics with a competitive design. Thermal stability is paramount in any precision process. Thermal…
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Aerotech Makes Designing Your Motion Profile Easy with Motion Designer Software
Aerotech HexGen Hexapod Six-DOF Positioning System
Automated Alignment Algorithms
Virtual Pivot Point Kinematics
Planar HDX – Two-Axis Ultra-Precision Planar Air-Bearing Stage
Linear Motor Application Guide
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Read MorePiezo Engineering Tutorial
The Direct and Inverse Piezoelectric Effect In 1880, while performing experiments with tourmaline, quartz, topaz, cane sugar and Rochelle salt crystals, Pierre and Jacques Curie discovered that when mechanical stress was applied to a crystal, faint electric charges developed on the surface of that crystal. The prefix “piezo” comes from the Greek piezein, which means…
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Aerotech’s control technologies can coordinate and synchronize up to 32 axes of motion of any motion technology to sub-microsecond servo-loop synchronization and sub-millisecond path trajectories. This tight synchronization between all motion axes results in higher precision processing and faster process throughput. Examples of Aerotech controller features that enable coordination and synchronization are:
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