Industrial Laser Systems and Motion Control Products. AIM Controls, Inc.

Motion Control Systems

Aim Controls specializes in motion control systems for specialized Engineering, Industrial, and Scientific applications. Aim's customers for Motion Control Systems include such entities and companies as: Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratories, the US Air Force, Ford Motor Company, Panasonic, Boston University, University of Toronto, and others.

Aim is unique in its capability to provide products ranging from its line of "off-the-shelf" motor controllers to complex custom machines that integrate motor drive electronics, multi-axis mechanical devices (e.g., X-Y tables) or precision mounts (for tracking and pointing), and complete software packages for operator control and interface.

Here is a list of products that Aim can provide individually, or as a custom, integrated solution:

  1. Stepper Motor Drive and Control Systems
  2. Pointing and Tracking Mounts for telescopes, lasers, and antennaes, including:
    a. Altitude/Azimuth mounts
    b. Equatorial Mounts
    c. Pan and Tilt Heads
    d. Satellite Antennae mounts
  3. Target Acquisition and Tracking Systems using CCD image, RF, or Laser
    sensing
  4. Precision Multi-axis mechanical tables, stages, and devices (e.g., X-Y
    tables; X, Y, Z, Theta and Phi axes of motion)
  5. Ultra-Precision Worm Gears
  6. EL Backlighting Power Supplies
  7. Custom Engineering