The BSC Industries team in MA partnered with a custom astronomical instrumentation and control systems manufacturer to develop a direct drive telescope mount system to be used for astronomical and space situational awareness (SSA) applications.
The application involved an optical tube assembly (OTA) for a 0.8m optical telescope, which is a typical payload for the telescope mount which uses direct drive motors.
The BSC Industries team recommended the Copley Controls Accelnet Plus 2-Axis Panel EtherCAT BE2 for the application. Features of the digital servo drive include:
The drive has the ability to utilize the system’s extremely high resolution (27 Bit) EnDat Absolute encoder for ultra-fine positioning. Test results including the drive addition to the application showed positive returns in helping the system avoid resonance points (natural frequencies) in the testbed – a big win for our customer.
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