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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Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will ‘Air Power’ Boost the Use of Soft Robots?
Our second INSIDER story today highlighted William Grover and his UC Riverside team’s efforts to swap electronics with air.
Articles: Motion Control
A new COVID test, a "ChromoUpdate," and NASA's brake rotor.
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Briefs: Transportation
Solid-state batteries offer a higher level of safety and potentially longer life than lithium-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Transportation
The lightweight brake rotor design with high heat dissipation uses novel surface cooling technology.
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Facility Focus: Aerospace
WPI supports research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, cybersecurity, and fire safety.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The robot firmly but gently grasps objects as small as 1 millimeter in diameter.
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Articles: Motion Control
Learn about widely used communications technologies for motion control.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
SMA tube elements drive rotary and ring gear motion in compact, powerful actuators.
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Briefs: Propulsion
This below-the-hook device enables gentle crane placement to decrease the risk of property damage.
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Application Briefs: Energy
An OEM must think about how to build a machine that will work on any kind of power system.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These common pneumatic circuits can be used alone or as building blocks in larger pneumatics systems.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
RightHand Robotics combines machine vision with an intelligent gripper design to make more adaptable robots.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This artificial muscle technology enables more human-like motion.
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Briefs: Energy
A connection between electricity and mechanical motion in soft, rubber-like materials could improve robot range.
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Products: Motion Control
Linear motion bearings, magnetic angle encoders, isolation valves, and more.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Oscillatory and rotational motions of different parts are combined to pave the way to developing super-miniaturized mechanical devices.
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Articles: Motion Control
A new generation of long-life electric linear actuators has emerged to give designers more flexibility.
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Articles: Motion Control
Learn the differences between bipolar and unipolar motors, their driving methods, and advantages and limitations.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
While soft robots hold promise in applications ranging from search-and-rescue efforts to wearable exoskeletons, the technologies are often held back by the electronics, says William Grover, a...
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INSIDER: Motion Control
A team of scientists has uncovered how heavy, motorized objects climb steep slopes — a newly discovered mechanism that also mimics how rock climbers navigate inclines. The “micro-swimmers” are about 20...
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INSIDER: Motion Control
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University developed a method that allows non-contact manipulation of small objects using sound waves.
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Engineers at UC Riverside developed an air-powered computer memory that can be used to control soft robots. Existing systems for controlling pneumatic soft robots still use electronic valves...
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
UC Berkeley engineers have created a lightweight and durable robot that achieves exquisite control and agility by modulating the electrostatic forces between its feet and surfaces.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This system enhances processing via real-time, non-destructive defect tracking.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The system enables robots to predict what their human coworker will do next.
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Products: Test & Measurement
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: Aerospace
The open-architecture flight software package provides solutions for onboard orbit determination.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Servo motion control delivers powerful, fast, and precise movement onboard robots and for associated equipment.
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