Ingenia Motion Control has introduced the VENUS digital servo drive, an integrated motion controller and digital servo drive in a convenient stand-alone package up to 2 kW without the need of any additional heat-sink on its whole operating temperature range.

This little servo can control brushless DC, brushless AC, DC brushed, steppers and voice coil motors with build-in motion controller and high level motion language. It can control either rotary or linear motors and operates in many modes including Profiled Torque, Profiled Velocity, Profiled Position, Interpolated Position, Cyclic Sync Position and Homing, and contains a wide range of feedback and on-board I/O options.

The Venus includes RS232 interface (with daisy-chain option) and CAN interface with CANopen protocol (CiA-301, 402 and 303) for configuration and distributed motion control functionality and can operate with a wide choice of feedback devices supporting by default Incremental Encoder, Digital Halls, Analog Halls, Analog Input (Potentiometer), PWM sensor and DC-Tachometer.

It accepts a wide set of command reference sources and can also execute pre-stored programs from its non-volatile memory. It comes with a complete set of software tools that helps user to configure, tune and operate their motion systems and can be used standalone for single-axis or distributed intelligence motion control applications, from performing simple moves to complex motion tasks.