When James Fisher Nuclear required a system to control the manipulator arm they had developed for nuclear decommissioning work, Moog Applications Engineers were engaged to deliver the required product performance and appropriate Moog control system.
ModuMan had been designed by JFN around conventional hydraulic actuators. To ensure maximum maintainability, vital control elements needed to be located outside the operating cell. The 6-axis manipulator arm is necessary to grasp and move materials weighing up to 100 kg, reaching 2.3 m through a 270 mm diameter access port in a radioactive environment.
Moog delivered a control system comprising Moog Servo Controllers, Servo Drives, and Motion Control software and modelling and simulation of the product design.