In addition the company works closely with a number of other specialist motion control specialists who are able to offer complementary products to enable LG Motion to provide a most comprehensive range of motion control solutions.  

Polaris is an advanced off-the-shelf motion control platform. Motion control applications can be realised by using Polaris hardware components which include the controller, drives, digital I/O, analog I/O, other Polaris devices and extensive motion control software which includes function libraries, executables and graphical user interfaces.

The advanced motion control platform, Polaris, demonstrates speed, precision and programming flexibility. Polaris has the highest rates and widest dynamic range of any motion control system available. Polaris consists of the Polaris motion controller, Polaris amplifier drives and Mercury our Gbit/s real-time network that provides communication between the controller and the drives.

Case study

A leading UK research institute have been developing a state of the art instrument that required the very best control. The instrument does a step scan moving in 0.1 micron and then holding for a second to collect data, then repeating the process. The customer needed a controller with the least “jitter” at standstill.

A Polaris system consisting of an interpolator with integral encoder compensation and a 3 phase linear drive which can achieve sub-nanometer servo performance was recommended and the target performance was immediately achieved and exceeded.