Engineer Biren Patel exposes why the industry needs new positioning controllers

Biren Patel, motion control engineering manager at maxon motor, talks about the company's new EPOS4 next-generation positioning controllers.

This is a brushless DC motor controller with two different power ratings and connector board to allow quick integration into machinery. The position controllers are suitable for dynamic control of brushed and brushless dc motors with up to 750-W continuous and 1,500-W peak power.

‘A couple things led us to develop the new Easy-to-use Positioning System (EPOS). We pride ourselves on staying up with technology and continually innovating. This is a position controller that’s two and a half times faster than our EPOS2 controllers. It’s not going to replace those controllers but complement them.

Engineers may have an application that doesn’t need sophisticated position control, but something that’s fast. This is where maxon motor’s EPOS4 controller works — to satisfy applications that need something in between high-end control and lower-end Digital Signal Processor (DSP)-based systems.

‘Over the years, we’ve had customers ask us to make controllers more compact and with a higher power density. That is another thing that drove us to develop the EPOS4. The controller’s pin headers are part of the main board, so are fixed, what is detachable is a compact board that goes on top of the main board for easy setup and quick builds of one-off applications.

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