Motoman MLX200 Controller

The Motoman MLX200 fea­tures an opti­mized robot motion soft­ware that has a uni­fied con­trols archi­tec­ture, work­ing with and con­sum­ing less resources from the Rock­well Automa­tion Pro­gram­ma­ble Automa­tion Con­trollers (PAC). This advanced con­troller does not require a sep­a­rate pro­gram­ming lan­guage or con­troller and enables more appli­ca­tion pos­si­bil­i­ties and inte­grates Motoman robots with ease. It can add mul­ti-robot con­trol and the abil­i­ty to con­trol robots through the famil­iar Con­trol­Logix and Com­pact Logix and intu­itive Add-On-Instruc­tions (AOIs) with­in RSLogix™ / Stu­dio 5000™ Logix Design­er environment/​platforms.

The robot dri­ves are pan­el-mount­ed allow­ing the abil­i­ty for inte­gra­tion in the main con­trol cab­i­net, reduc­ing the amount of hard­ware, floor space, or spare parts nec­es­sary. Fur­ther­more, these set-up of the hard­ware and con­trols is sim­pli­fied which helps to elim­i­nate redun­dant inter­faces. The reduced sys­tem com­plex­i­ty and sin­gle appli­ca­tion devel­ope­ment ulti­mate­ly brings a faster time-to-mar­ket to the man­u­fac­tur­er as there is one pro­gram­mer and a very sim­pli­fied con­trol scheme. 

The MLX 200 is packed with a vari­ety of advanced robot kine­mat­ics, as well as motion plan­ning algo­rithms, which allow pro­gram­mers to more eas­i­ly plan robot paths for appli­ca­tions, as well as blend­ing of motion for entire robot kine­mat­ics. Plus, the sim­pli­fied hard­ware archi­tec­ture elim­i­nates redun­dan­cy and reduces the set­up time and com­plex­i­ty while also improv­ing the reli­a­bil­i­ty of the sys­tem. Check out the wide range of robots avail­able on this plat­form, from 4- to 7‑axes robots with pay­loads from 5 – 300 kilograms.