Region: North America

Industry: Entertainment Technology

Service: Research and Development

Technology: C / C++, Delphi, XML/XSLT, QNX

Business Challenge: 

A state of the art stage control system with human safety in mind.

What ELEKS Did: 

Since 2002, ELEKS has worked closely with a leading supplier of mechanical automation and control equipment to the theatrical, themed attraction, motion picture, and touring production markets to develop a sophisticated stage control system aimed at operating entertainment automation machinery to improve the customer’s line of theater equipment controls, eventually culminating in an entire redesign of their stock equipment and software package to meet the various technical requirements of different artistic performances and shows.

The ELEKS hardware team worked on development of the core system components, including safety devices, axis motion controllers, handheld control devices, operator consoles, and other support hardware. Additionally, ELEKS software team developed a comprehensive 3D modeling system for the stage automation system that assisted in defining flight paths. These flight paths are fed to a real time system that control multiple high-speed winches with a number of built in safety features meant to protect human life.

The key functionalities that were implemented include: Real-time hardware control and monitoring; Motion algorithm designs; Network performance optimization; Real-time monitoring of large networks; Rule-based system control and protection scripting.