A method for controlling a planar drive system, wherein the planar drive system comprises at least a controller, a stator module having a stator surface and a rotor which may be positioned and moved on the stator surface, wherein a magnetic coupling may be achieved between a rotor magnetic field of the rotor and stator magnetic fields which may be generated by the stator module, and wherein a movement of the rotor relative to the stator module is allowed for by a targeted control of the stator magnetic fields, comprising: positioning an object on a rotor in a first arrangement state of the object relative to the rotor in a positioning step, wherein the object is embodied as a solid object or as a liquid object or as a powdered object or as a granular object; wherein the method is characterized in carrying out an accelerating movement of the rotor according to a defined movement pattern and by the accelerating movement arranging the object positioned on the rotor in the first arrangement state relative to the rotor into a second arrangement state relative to the rotor in an arranging step, wherein an arrangement state comprises at least one from the list: a positioning/orienting of the object relative to the rotor, a degree of ordering/sorting of a plurality of objects, a degree/state of mixing, a degree/state of de-mixing, a degree/state of dissolution of a granular, powdered or liquid object having at least two components, a degree/state of compacting of an object embodied as a bulk material, wherein the accelerating movement of the rotor is achieved by actuating the stator magnetic fields accordingly, wherein the movement pattern comprises at least an acceleration pulse having an acceleration strength and an acceleration duration in an acceleration direction, wherein the movement pattern comprises an accelerated translational movement in a translational acceleration direction and/or an accelerated rotational movement about a rotational axis, and wherein the translational acceleration direction and/or the rotational axis are oriented in an arbitrarily selectable spatial direction. positioning an object on a rotor in a first arrangement state of the object relative to the rotor in a positioning step, wherein the object is embodied as a solid object or as a liquid object or as a powdered object or as a granular object; wherein the method is characterized in carrying out an accelerating movement of the rotor according to a defined movement pattern and by the accelerating movement arranging the object positioned on the rotor in the first arrangement state relative to the rotor into a second arrangement state relative to the rotor in an arranging step, wherein an arrangement state comprises at least one from the list: a positioning/orienting of the object relative to the rotor, a degree of ordering/sorting of a plurality of objects, a degree/state of mixing, a degree/state of de-mixing, a degree/state of dissolution of a granular, powdered or liquid object having at least two components, a degree/state of compacting of an object embodied as a bulk material, wherein the accelerating movement of the rotor is achieved by actuating the stator magnetic fields accordingly, wherein the movement pattern comprises at least an acceleration pulse having an acceleration strength and an acceleration duration in an acceleration direction, wherein the movement pattern comprises an accelerated translational movement in a translational acceleration direction and/or an accelerated rotational movement about a rotational axis, and wherein the translational acceleration direction and/or the rotational axis are oriented in an arbitrarily selectable spatial direction.