 The Controls Toolkit is a new software package from MEI that includes two separate Windows® based utilities, BodeTool™ and FilterDesigner™ designed to work in conjunction with MEI SynqNet motion controllers.
Never before has such powerful mechanical characterization software been packaged to work seamlessly with a motion API. The Controls Toolkit exploits the power of MEI SynqNet motion controllers to take machine tuning and optimization to a new level.
The Bode Tool tests a system of one or two axes with a sine sweep and measures the closed loop frequency response.
From the closed loop response, the open loop response is simulated. A filter can be simulated and the filtered open and closed loop response can be simulated.
 The results are plotted graphically, in addition to being made available as tab delimited text files for use in external analysis programs.
Testing can be performed with correlated excitation across two axes and the response of both axes can be tested simultaneouly. This is useful for systems with cross-coupled axes (gantries, scara robots, etc.)
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 To improve move times and system stability, the filter design toolkit lets you implement multistage notch and low-pass filters.
The filter design toolkit provides a graphical interface for specifying the low-pass cutoff frequencies (or the center frequency and width for notch filters). The toolkit automatically calculates digital coefficients to be downloaded to the XMP's cascading biquad filter or saved to a file.
Different filters can be designed for each axis. Up to six biquad stages per axis (12th order filter) are supported.
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