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SYSTEM INTEGRATION

MOVING MODELS

DRIVES & POSITIONING SYSTEMS

SIX-AXIS HEXAPOD POSITION SYSTEM USED TO MOVE MODELS

ark Roberts Motion Control (MRMC) is an contributed its motion systems expertise through the
award winning designer and manufacturer of design and specification for the hexapod mechanics and
motion control hardware and software widely drives including its load and performance calculations.
Mused in the film, television and professional The motion specialist also supplied most of the
photography industries. Its extensive range of camera proprietary and custom designed components for the
robot solutions enable high speed, pixel accurate and project that was assembled at MRMC’s Surrey-UK facility. degrees-of-freedom that its Flair software determines as a
highly repeatable compound movement that is essential in Heason Technology combines its own design and build real-time trajectory seen from a camera lens or from any
enabling technology for the special effects and visual capability with motion products, components and systems other point in space for a specific shooting sequence. The
imagery we all enjoy today. from a select group of globally recognised distribution PC-based software calculates the actual leg length
As part of MRMC’s impressive array of ‘motion rigs’, partners. Its systems integration service is backed by a positions required for each actuator which is transferred
Heason Technology has recently supplied design expertise sales application team and extensive in-house motion into each axis’ brushless servo drive via EtherCAT.
and components for an EtherCAT controlled 6-axis engineering support including sophisticated 3D CAD and With the ability to create and replay motion sequences
hexapod that is used as a model mover. With its 1500kg motion simulation software. For the motion base project with high repeatability and precise accuracy, complete
payload, MRMC’s servo motor driven ‘motion base’ Heason supplied precision linear actuators from its scenes can be composed where actors or models are
precisely enables objects or even actors to move in any distribution partner Thomson Industries as well as filmed against a green screen for example, to give the
linear and rotational direction in a volume of brushless servo motors, EtherCAT ready servo drives and appearance of fast and exciting movement. In a second
approximately 0.7m 3 to create the illusion of motion associated accessories from Kollmorgen. operational mode, the motion base can be controlled from
when paired with its sophisticated Flair software. With its six precision linear actuators arranged in a a manually operated miniature scale replica of the
Heason Technology worked closely with MRMC from Stewart Platform geometry, MRMC’s motion base hexapod that mimics the position of six high-precision.
the conceptual phase of the motion base project and produces the synchronised compound movement in six- MORE INFORMATION: www.heason.com