Mercury Servo Drives from Ingenia-CAT have been successfully integrated into the mobile base of B21 robots from Real World Interface (RWI).
B21 includes three DC motors for displacing the robot and one additional DC motor for rotating movements. They are now all controlled with Mercury Servo Drives.
With Mercury Servo Drives users can control the robot through a CAN bus (network command source) or through an external 2-axis joystick (analog command source).
When working in network command source mode a laptop including a simple USB-to-CAN interface can be used to drive the system.
Both modes of Mercury, position profile and velocity profile, can be used to control the movements of the robot.