uniVAL drive – offering robot control for standard drive communication

uniVAL drive is a “ready to plug” solution to drive Stäubli’s entire range of 4 and 6 axis robots with generic industrial multiaxis controllers.

uniVAL drive eases the integration of Stäubli robots and makes the procedure simpler and faster than ever before – saving time, costs and resources.

Performance

• Arm behavior benefits from Stäubli’s know how and arm behavior algorithms
• Supports major real time field buses (ETHERCAT, POWERLINK, PROFINET, SERCOS ...)
• Full system access from the master controller (robot I/O, drive internal status, robot control information)

Simplicity

• Simple integration based on standardized protocols using drive profiles (Sercos drive profile, CanOpen CiA 402 drive profile)
• The entire machine (servo axis, robot, HMI, I/Os...) is driven by one single control platform
• Programming is done with the wellknown language of the master industrial multi-axis controller

Safety

• Joint couplings, safety controls and robot calibration are handled by the uniVAL drive
• Servoing and robot behaviour are mainly managed by the uniVAL drive using proven servo control algorithms
• uniVAL drive implements safety functions CAT3/Pld as defined by ISO 13849