Symetrie launches a new hexapod named MAUKA to meet precision positioning applications in research or industry needing a small footprint of 107 mm.
Designed to position up to 5 kg payloads with a submicronic resolution, MAUKA hexapod offers travel ranges of 10 mm in X and Y, 20 mm in Z and 16° in the three rotations. Its diameter is 107 mm and it is 198 mm tall in mid position.
Its small footprint makes it ideal for applications such as telescopes or optical instrumentation needing a small occultation.
Benefiting from Symetrie’s twenty years of experience in the development of high precision hexapods, MAUKA hexapod guarantees a resolution of 0.5 µm in translation and 5 µrad (0.0003 °) in rotation.
To minimize the diameter, we used a hexaglide geometry, where motors are mounted in line. Unlike a classic Stewart platform hexapod, MAUKA is not made up of variable length actuators but of six fixed length rods pushed by motorized slides.
MAUKA hexapod operates in any direction: vertically, horizontally or in any other angle.
Thanks to its absolute linear encoders, it is not necessary to carry out a homing command each time the controller is turned back on, the hexapod position is immediately known, without having to make any hexapod movement.
The hexapod comes with its controller and a control interface compatible with LabVIEW, EPICS, SPEC, TANGO or C. The ergonomic software allows to configure virtual centers of rotation and easily change coordinates systems.
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