Chapter 1 - Introduction
12 Adept Viper s650/s850 Robot with MB-60R User’s Guide, Rev D
Adept SmartController CX
The SmartController CX
TM
motion controller is the foundation of Adept’s family of
high-performance distributed motion and vision controllers. The SmartController CX is
designed for use with:
• Adept Cobra s-series robots
• Adept Viper s-series robots
• Adept Python linear modules
• Adept MotionBlox-10
•Adept sMI6 (SmartMotion)
The SmartController CX supports an integrated vision option and a conveyor tracking
option, as well as other options. It offers scalability and support for IEEE 1394-based
digital I/O and general motion expansion modules. The IEEE 1394 interface is the
backbone of Adept SmartServo, Adept's distributed controls architecture supporting
Adept products. The controller also includes Fast Ethernet and DeviceNet.
Figure 1-2. Adept SmartController CX
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SmartServo IEEE-1394
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Device Net
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BELT ENCODER
SmartController CX
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RS-422/485
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