High-Precision Synchronized Motion with Yaskawa’s iCube Control Platform

Experience the future of machine control with Yaskawa’s iCube Control™ platform, featured at Pack Expo 2025. At the core of this demo is the iC9200 Machine Controller, powered by a 1.26 GHz Triton processor, that seamlessly synchronizes linear, direct-drive, and rotary servo axes. Designed for next-level performance, it delivers ultra-precise motion control with integrated I/O, advanced safety modules, and effortless connectivity to Yaskawa HMIs.

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00:00:03 Hi, this is Daniel Hullman, product specialist at Yuskawa America here at the Pack Expo trade show in Las Vegas. Today we're going to be showcasing our collaborative robots, automated AI systems, and our synchronized motion demo with Sigma X servos and the Icube control platform. Give you a little insight about what you'll find in the

00:00:22 demo. We have our rotary servo motors which range anywhere from 50 watt to 15 kilowatt and feature a high resolution encoder for precise performance. You'll then find our direct drive motors which eliminate backlash, provide a stiff mechanical system for dynamic applications, and are offered with either an iron core or coreless design. You'll also find our linear servo motors

00:00:44 which achieve high positioning accuracy and repeatability with smooth motion up to 5 m/s. The Sigma Track 2 is a turnkey product which is a readytorun linear stage solution. You also find our Sigma X amplifiers with EtherCAT communications which are equipped with software algorithms that tune automatically, suppress vibration and customers have the option between a

00:01:07 single, dual or threeaxis design. These Sigma X amplifiers integrate seamlessly with our IQ control platform. The IQ controller is powered by the Triton ASIC which is a multi-core 1.2 2 GHz processor designed and built by Yuscowa. The advantage is having one controller, one software environment for your motion, logic, robots, security, and safety. For control and task monitoring,

00:01:32 Escala offers a wide range of HMIs that meet your application needs with either the choice of a smart panel or the new panel PC so you can interact with your machines reliably and flexibly. I'm going to turn it over to Matt Smith for an in-depth look at the demo.
>> Hi, I'm Matt Smith. I'm a regional motion engineer for Yuskawa. I'm going to give you a little background overview

00:01:51 of our I cube demo here. What's controlling all these axes is our IC9200 controller. It's our multiaxis controller controlling up to 64 axes of motion on EtherCAT. It also has built-in slice bus IO that mounts to the side of the controller and then also supports remote IO um that we call IO that can be expanded on EtherCAT. that remote IO and local IO can also support safety IO. The

00:02:18 IC9200 uh has a one program environment I cube engineer that you can do safety motion programming environment supports ladder code structured text function blocks and sequential flowchart programming. The operating system on the controller itself is Linux based so it supports writing C++ and C code. So with the Sigma X, we also support a ASMX option

00:02:42 card. That's our FSOE safety card. So that then activates uh different safety functionalities like safe limited speed and safe position monitoring that is activated from the IC9200 safety PLC program. Shown on this demo is our Sigma Track 2. It's a pre-built linear stage that comes as a turnkey solution. Having a linear stage pre-built like this makes it easy to incorporate into machines. So

00:03:08 you save time on the engineering that would be involved with designing a linear motor stage as the bearings linear encoder is all built in. One aspect of the IC9200 controller is communications to various uh protocols. So in this case we're supporting OPCOA talking to our HMI. So the programming software is is built in to the I cube engineer software. We call it HMI

00:03:33 designer. So from there, any OPCUA tag that you've marked in your program is automatically available in that programming environment. So you no longer have to hunt for tags. You use direct tag addressing as you use it in the program. For more information, you can visit yuskawa.com or iqcontrol.com.