Motion Control/​Automation

Motion Control

Browse innovative developments in motion control technologies. Find essential news, technical briefs and applications used in PID controllers, servo motors, direct drive solutions, autonomous positioning, and motion-related components.

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Briefs: Defense
The technique could be used to improve navigation for robots, drones, or pedestrians.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Materials
Hardware and software tweak microwave patterns to discover the most efficient way to identify objects.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Motor drivers, position sensors, offset couplings, and more.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Manufacturers are beginning to realize the same benefits by cloud-connecting their equipment and processes on the shop floor.
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Briefs: Motion Control
The domino effect is used to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
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Articles: Motion Control
As advancements in technology continue to define how pneumatic or electromechanical linear devices lift, move, or place a load, the requirements of excellent closed-loop positioning and accuracy greatly increase
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Briefs: Motion Control
The gyroscope is smaller than a grain of rice — about 500 times smaller than the current state-of-the-art device.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Here's what you'll need to know when you’re choosing an encoder for a motion control system.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robot-assisted surgery has advanced dramatically over the past decade in almost every surgical sub-specialty. Robot-assisted surgery is usually performed using surgical robot systems that involve...
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technology could help control driverless cars and automated warehouses.
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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A small, inexpensive, and highly accurate gyroscope, developed at the University of Michigan, navigates without GPS. The key to making the gyroscope is a nearly symmetrical mechanical resonator...
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Rutgers University engineers have created a tabletop device that can draw blood or insert catheters to deliver fluids and drugs. The device can accurately pinpoint blood vessels, improving success...
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Briefs: Materials
This framework can be used by commercial and military aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Briefs: Energy
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Applications include valves, tubes, and other gas and fluid system components.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.
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Products: Test & Measurement
This month: Sensors that measure weather, proximity, pH, and more.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Perovskites Goodfellow (Coraopolis, PA) recently announced a new range of perovskites, a group of materials that demonstrate great potential for optoelectronic applications. Perovskites have a unique and versatile crystal...
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Articles: Motion Control
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
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Articles: Motion Control
Machine and system designers now have greater options in choosing a motor to meet motion control requirements.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Systems of tiny robots could build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.
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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is home to one of the largest buildings in the world — the massive Vehicle Assembly Building — and also hosts a number of one-of-a-kind facilities. The more...
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