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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Supported by PI Precision Motion Technologies

More than a decade of collaboration spanning cryogenic positioning, optical alignment, precision robotics, and flight-qualified piezo actuators.

· Stefan Vorndran

For over a decade, PI precision stages, hexapods, gantries, and piezo actuators supported development of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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Precision Robotics and Automation

Hexapods Advance Production Processes

· Dr. Markus Frietsch· Stefan Vorndran

Hexapods, six-legged parallel-kinematic machines, are quickly gaining ground in a broad range of industrial automation applications after “learning” how to directly communicate with PLC or CNC controllers via fieldbus interfaces.

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