Motion Control/​Automation

Explore the latest developments in motion control and automation. Discover innovative advances from NASA and major research labs in robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, PID controller applications, motor drives and power transmissions.

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Briefs: Aerospace
This system enhances processing via real-time, non-destructive defect tracking.
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Briefs: AR/AI
The system enables robots to predict what their human coworker will do next.
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Products: RF & Microwave Electronics
Temperature transmitters, robotic tool changers, epoxy adhesives, and more.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A robot could immediately alert a human of small changes in their surrounding environment.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The open-architecture flight software package provides solutions for onboard orbit determination.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Servo motion control delivers powerful, fast, and precise movement onboard robots and for associated equipment.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
These tiny aerial robots can operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The system uses infrasonic acoustics for weather monitoring and for drone or UAV activity.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The soft material demonstrates autonomous, heartbeat-like oscillating properties.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
A production-based X-ray solution performs product quality evaluation directly on the manufacturing line.
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Briefs: Motion Control
The algorithm speeds up the planning process robots use to adjust their grip on objects for picking and sorting or tool use.
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Briefs: Energy
This could lead to the commercial development of smart glass, with applications ranging from imaging to advanced robotics.
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INSIDER: Motion Control
Researchers from the University of Houston have demonstrated “giant flexoelectricity” in soft elastomers that could improve robot movement range and make self-powered pacemakers a real possibility....
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Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
In this episode of Here’s an Idea, we speak to three researchers who are finding ways to automate surgical tasks, from suturing,to spotting tumors.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology uses tactile sensing to identify objects underground.
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Products: Connectivity
A new power supply from Bicker Elektronik has a backup battery that bridges power failures, brownouts, and flicker.
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Application Briefs: Aerospace
The Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) is a first-of-its-kind robotic technology.
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The interface enables one person to accomplish tasks that previously required two sets of hands.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This software could also be used for indoor navigation assistance for the visually impaired.
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Articles: Motion Control
See how simulation software is being used to is automate the test process for vehicle rotors.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The software automatically checks mission operations logs.
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Briefs: Motion Control
This work could lead to much more robust devices that continue to operate in spite of damage.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Applications include portable aerospace structures and terrestrial structures such as cleanrooms and field hospitals.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
New high bus voltage stepper motor systems avoid the complexity and expense of servo motors.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The software could help reduce cost and waste for companies using additive manufacturing to mass-produce parts in factories.
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Q&A: Imaging
New autonomous robotic devices can survey hazardous or difficult-to-reach sites faster than humans.
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Technology Leaders: Transportation
You may not be able to see them, but power anomalies that originate within your automated control system are costing you expensive downtime.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
High-precision medical sensors, battery-cell mappers, signal conditioners, and more.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Editor Ed Brown explores what’s ahead for MEMS automobile navigation systems.
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