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Control solutions for motion applications require high degree of flexibility regarding the use and connectivity. Being fairly simple or highly complex, micro- or millimeter precision, one or multiple axis… the system designer has to tackle specific interfacing issues. One platform should fit different applications and provide cost effective solutions. Flexible software platform is required on one side to satisfy control system (CS) application requirements. On the other side variety of hardware (HW)–controlled by motion controller, i.e., power stages, position feedback–also requires some degree of connection flexibility. Paper presents a design of a motion control platform that offers flexible interfacing both to CS and HW, elegant extendibility options for selection of feedback protocols, low-level direct access for engineering control and enables large distances between controller and motors.
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