Systems operated by electric motors commonly utilize control loops that can monitor the position, velocity, current or other aspects to provide the desired operation. This is accomplished by comparing ...

RX14T motor control MCUs from Renesas Electronics. Featuring a 48MHz RXv2 core with FPU and DSP support, the RX14T MCUs balance cost, functionality, and motor control performance. The RX14T ...

Stepper motor systems are highly efficient when producing torque, but lack operational efficiency when not producing torque. Applied Motion Products offers insights on how to make a greener and more ...

Open-loop stepper motors have held a prominent position in automation applications over the years due to their simplicity, excellent positioning, and low cost. However, as manufacturers utilize faster ...

As previously mentioned, the feedback sensors include position sensors to track the rotor’s location, current sensors to measure the motor phase currents, voltage sensors to monitor the DC bus voltage ...

Graceful Shutdown: Ensuring the motor and controller are shut down safely when the application is stopped. If the application operates on a multicore MCU/DSP/FPGA, an appropriate inter-core ...

Regardless of their primary field, sooner or later, most designers have to deal with motor controls. Broadly speaking, there are two methods to incorporating these components in your design. First, ...

Sophisticated motor control is no longer the sole province of custom hardware and proprietary control techniques. Advances in powerful, low-cost digital-signal controllers (DSCs) let designers use ...

Every plant in the process industry most likely has several control loops that do not perform well. Although there are many factors that may negatively affect control loop performance, a few of these ...

How humanoid robots use high-performance motors to replicate precise, coordinated human movement. Why high-frequency GaN power stages enable compact, efficient motor drives inside tightly packed ...