Atmel Corporation has announced the availability of a new family of AVR 8-bit microcontrollers for LIN Automotive networking applications. The ATtiny167 i
Machine vision is not a discipline in itself, such as mechanical engineering. It is a skill involving specialized equipment. How you should go about gaining that skill depends on your goals. If yo
Mitsubishi Electric's iQ PAC (programmable automation controller) can now integrate production processes, including robots, in a single, interdisciplinary, automation platform. The iQ is claimed to be the first controller system to provide such comprehensive integration.The iQ Automation Platform's integrated control concept is based on a multi-processor architecture that includes PLC, motion control, CNC and robot controllers. In multi-processor mode, the control and communications tasks are shared by the PLC CPU and up to three additional central processor units, which can be integrated.The robot CPU is plugged into the backplane of the iQ as an intelligent module. The controllers communicate with one another via the common backplane bus, giving synchronised data and signal exchange with the processing cycles of the CPUs, with a cycle time of just 0.88 milliseconds.In a system controlled by iQ Automation Platform, the conventional robot controller functions as an amplifier, relaying the control signals from the robot CPU to the robot.
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