Part 1 in a series of articles on motor control design starts with an introduction to motors and controllers. Electric motors consume almost half of the electricity produced worldwide. They, in fact, ...

Accurate, repeatable positioning is crucial to a host of medical devices — everything from CAT scanners to blood-testing equipment to milling machines for lenses. And motion must often be in more than ...

Improvement in the design of medical equipment for better-streamlined functionality and performance is influenced by a number of critical factors. The research, design, modeling, testing, prototyping, ...

Automation experts from Beckhoff, DigiKey and Siemens Digital Industries explain how AI enhances motion control across ...

JOBY recently announced a new line of content creator microphones, and they’re not done yet. The Spin and Swing are two new motion control devices for mobile content creators. The Spin is a Bluetooth ...

Very early motion control systems used mechanical gearboxes and levers to select speeds and drive power, but these systems were quickly replaced by analog electronic controllers that provided much ...

All motion control systems aim to maneuver loads down paths with a predefined motion. If this intended motion is achieved by comparing actual load motion to desired motion and then making corrections, ...

Aerotech’s Sensor Fusion is a 3U data acquisition device integrated with the Automation 3200 (A3200) motion controller that provides precise time alignment of motion and data acquisition functions, ...

The global motion control software market has slower growth as compared with the market for other components used in motion control systems. The motion control software is provided by vendors along ...

Come on baby, let’s do the locomotion. We have an interesting follow up on a newly discovered Nintendo patent. This refers to a patent for what appears to be a peripheral meant for the Switch 2.

In theory, a distributed architecture simplifies equipment design by putting right-sized automation as close as possible to the driven machine elements. The SIMODRIVE POSMO series of distributed ...