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Download our white papers and technical articles to learn about motion control solutions, components and motor control architectures. Explore your options and develop the best strategy for balancing lab automation and robotics costs, reliability, maintenance, and time-to-market.
Liquid Handling, Automation and Robotics, Life Sciences, Automated Packaging
Build vs Buy Of A Three Axis Motion Controller
Digital Current Loop, Common Motion Architecture, Step Motors
Digital Current Loop Significantly Quiets Step Motor Noise
Conventional step “current chopper” drives result in a large amount of step motor noise, needless motor heating, and consume more current. A digital current loop will result in significantly quieter and lower temperature motor operation which is beneficial in many applications. This article details how a digital current loop will result in a significantly quieter, faster running and lower temperature motor operation which is beneficial in many applications.
Advanced Motion Control, Step Motors, Servo Motors and Drives, ION, Juno Family of ICs, MC58113
New Control Technique Combines Servo Performance With Step Motor Cost
Motion Control Techniques, Motion Profiles, N-Series ION, user defined profiles
Motion Kinematics
Step Motors, Magellan, ION, Juno Family of ICs, Pro-Motion, Lab Automation, Medical Devices
Getting The Most Out Of Portable Medical Motion Control Applications
Motion Control Techniques, Medical Device Equipment, Automation and Robotics, Life Sciences, Magellan, Juno Family ICs, Digital Drives, MC58113, Lab Automation
Motion Control Goes Small
Field Oriented Control (FOC), Step Motors, Servo Motors and Drives, Juno Family of ICs
Field Oriented Control (FOC) - A Deep Dive
Brushless DC, step, and DC brush motors are the three most commonly used motor types for positioning and velocity motion control applications. Of these, brushless DC and step motors are “multi-phase,” meaning they require some type of external coil excitation. Explore the most popular techniques for multi-phase motor control, including Field-oriented Control (FOC), and determine which techniques work best for various positioning and high-speed spinning applications.
Step Motors, Prodigy Motion Boards, Magellan, ION, Juno Family of ICs, Pro-Motion
Too Hot, Too Heavy, and Too Power Hungry
Medical Device Equipment, Liquid Handling, Prodigy Motion Boards, Life Sciences, Magellan, Atlas, Digital Drives, Juno Family of ICs, Lab Automation
Precision Fluid Handling: Optimizing Lab Automation Mechanics
Step Motors, Prodigy Motion Boards, Magellan, ION, Juno Family of ICs, Pro-Motion
Step Motor Noise
Step Motors, Prodigy Motion Boards, Magellan, ION, Servo Motors, Juno Family of ICs, Pro-Motion
Servo Motor Noise
Advanced Motion Control, Medical Device Equipment, Life Sciences, Motion Control Trends, Lab Automation
Motion Control Technology Trends for Laboratory Applications
Advanced Motion Control, Motion Control Techniques, Packaging, Automated Packaging
Techniques That Improve Automated Packaging Equipment Performance
TENSIONING – GEARING - CAMMING - In this article we will review three widely used motion control techniques: web tension control, proportional material spacing, and CAM-based synchronized profiling.
Medical Device Equipment, Liquid Handling, Life Sciences, Precision Motion Control, Lab Automation
Improve Liquid Handling Robot Throughput with Direct Path Planning
In Liquid Handling Robots that are properly balanced, the gantry robot utilization reaches close to 100%, meaning the robot is almost always moving. This article (and poster) shows how we have implemented a high-speed motion system on a Liquid Handling Robot gantry that is aware of system clearances so that it can start a planar (X/Y) move while a Z-axis move is still ongoing. By employing such a motion control solution, robot move times can be improved by 25% over conventional robot moves and over 50% compared to systems that only employ single axis moves.
