Machine designers are often asked to build systems that take up less space and operate on less power. Read about new developments in motors, sensors, and architectures.
Read about the most popular motion control techniques, including FOC, for multi-phase motor control, and what control techniques work best for positioning applications.
PMD Motion Control Products Now Available Through Mouser
PMD announced the availability of products through Mouser Electronics. Through this agreement, Mouser will now distribute PMD's Magellan, Juno, ION, Atlas, and Prodigy families.
Solving Mobile Robotics Problems, New Motion Board with UDPM, ISO 13485
In this issue, introducing a new motion control board with UDPM, motion control problems with portable automation and mobile robotics designs, ISO 13485 certification, and more.
Connected Health: The Miniaturization of Medical - Part 2
Machine design experts examined the phenomenon of medical miniaturization and looked at the components and methodologies that enable a new breed of products.
New Motion Board Integrates Amplifiers and Synchronized Contouring
New Prodigy motion control boards with pre-installed UDPM provide amplifier and synchronized contouring for DC Brush, Brushless DC, and step motor applications.
Mobile and Portable Automation Demands Light, Efficient, and Cool Operation
This deep dive will show you how to lower the heat, weight, and power consumption of your mobile motion controls and it discusses advances in the motors themselves.
Pumping liquid is at the core of many lab automation systems. This paper details motion control techniques used to pump fluids precisely and accurately.
A new drive technique called closed loop stepper, or stepper servo, is gaining attention because it can address many classic step motor problems, and at the same time extract more ...
Replay our popular webinar as two motion control experts discuss how you can use two design techniques — current, and closed-loop — to achieve advanced servo and step motor control.
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has put many of the products built by PMD's customers on the front line of the response. See what solutions our customers are building to identify, ...
Step motors are known to be noisy and tend to vibrate when moving. This deep dive explains how you can reduce, and in some cases eliminate, step motor noise & vibration problems.
Pumps that move liquid precisely are at the heart of a broad array of medical devices and lab automation. Get an understanding of what types of fluid pumps will work ...
New Motor Control IC Integrates Outer Loop And Velocity Loop Functions
Juno MC71113, MC73113, and MC78113 ICs integrate a high-speed outer loop control function with a velocity control function for 3-phase Brushless DC and DC Brush motors.
PMD announces the signing of a new partnership agreement with IMCA (Electronics and Mechanics) for distribution of PMD's motion control products in Turkey.
Low Cost ICs Provide Advanced Velocity Control of Servo Motors
Juno MC71113, MC73113, and MC78113 breakthrough motion control ICs provide advanced velocity control of 3-phase Brushless DC and DC Brush servo motors.
A noisy or chattering servo axis is one of the most common motion problem that engineers encounter. This deep dive focuses on servo motor noise problems and how to solve them.
Learn about which motion profiles work best for which applications, and how modest changes in the profile parameter settings can create big improvements in throughput.
Today's lab equipment requires fast and precise pumping to aspirate, dispense or continuously pump liquids. This paper illustrates key motion control techniques for improved accuracy.
Motion Control News - Low Cost IC Provides Field Oriented Control
The new Juno ICs provide torque control of 3-phase Brushless DC and DC Brush motors. PMD signs a partnership with new China distributor. A deep dive into S-Curve motion profiles, ...
New Distributor for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Customers
PMD announces the signing of a new partnership agreement with GT International Co., Ltd. for distribution of PMD's motion control products in China, Hong Kong and ...
S-Curve Motion Profiles - Vital For Optimizing Machine Performance
In this deep dive, we explain how to achieve smoother motion using S-curve motion profiles which a vital tool for improving point to point transfer speeds.
4 Steps to Precisely Control Motor Velocity at Low Speed
Low-speed precision velocity control is all in the filtering. In this blog post, Chuck Lewin provides a sequence of steps you can take to control low-speed motion.
Here are some highlights of the latest information around robotic motion, controls, motors, precision, as well as how innovations in robot designs are driving the market for servo drives ...
Big or small, the right encoder/sensor for your motion control application is crucial to meeting your system requirements. Before determining whether or not you need an encoder, or to ...
Pan and tilt systems used in today's robotics applications must move fast, smooth, and accurately. Read how an off-the-shelf motion solution maintains path to a lower cost custom ...
Understand what type of fluid pump works best, and what motor controllers deliver precision pumping. Understand how to achieve precision fluid handling.
Add a 5th Axis to 4-axis Medical Sample Delivery System
Struggling with adding an end effector to your multi-axis motion control application? Read how you can add a 5th axis to a medical sample delivery machine.
Keep Your Step Motor Position with A Closed Loop Motion Control System
Step motors are a common solution for controlling the position of moving components. Learn about the benefits of using a closed-loop motion control system.
Whether you build your own controller or buy off-the-shelf, knowing how to implement these new approaches is important for maximizing cost-effectiveness, and minimizing project ...
In the last ten years several trends have been at work to drive the use of sophisticated, complex motor control algorithms. The most important trend is the desire for lower energy ...
Part II of a two-part deep dive into the world of motion software - both the kind that lets you tune your system, and the kind used to write your machine's application code.
Position Encoder Deep Dive: New Measurement Techniques Drive Data Formats
With positioning motion control applications, one position feedback device has been king of the hill for a long time - the incremental optical encoder with quadrature output. This ...
Motion control applications involving direct control by an operator, anyone from a pilot to a surgeon, remotely controlling a robot or mechanism are known as “telerobotic” systems. The ...
Common Motion Problems and How to Fix Them - Part I
Everyone working in motion control has a war story; be it the machine that stopped working mysteriously or the motor that wouldn't stop vibrating. A deep dive provides some ammunition ...
Automated lighting has become very complex. Read how to build an eight-axis motion controller that supports centralized synchronization and a mix of power.
Using a blood analyzer as an example, get some insight on how to efficiently create a multi-motor, multi-axis motion control architecture that is compact.
How to Build An Automatic Product Labeler Solution
Here are some ways to build a product labeler application that precisely aligns to the moving product, but can be used with a variety of conveyor systems.
The second part of our regenerative braking and battery regeneration deep-dive uses a theoretical model to prove the existence of steady state regeneration and provides insight ...
Regenerative Braking - Part I: Steady State Analysis
In this two-part piece, we investigate the conditions at which battery regeneration can occur. The emphasis of this article is on regenerative braking and the analysis of a battery ...
Accurate velocity contouring for controlled coating thickness is critical and this use case explains how to maximize uniformity of thin film thickness.
Get an overview of proportional, integral, derivative (PID) based servo loops, and learn about two new standard manual tuning methods that work well too.
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 ...
Before selecting the best motor, or motors, for your design project, take time to understand what kind of positioning controls and functionality you need. In this article, ...
The PMD Juno DK78113 Developer Kit is an integrated board and software package that serves as an electrical and software design tool for building systems that use 64-pin TQFP Juno ...
Atlas Digital Amplifier Complete Technical Reference
Atlas Digital Amplifiers are single-axis amplifiers that provide high performance torque control of brushless DC, step motor, and DC Brush motors. This manual provides a description ...
Machine designers have a difficult task. More often than not they are asked to squeeze the maximum possible performance out of a machine design for the ...
Techniques to Precisely Synchronize Motion Axes - A Deep Dive
Many motion applications require precise synchronization of one or more axes. Understand some of the important approaches toward motion synchronization and have some fun with a ...
Learn more about ATLAS® Digital Amplifiers, our compact single-axis amplifiers that provide high-performance torque control for DC brush, Brushless DC, and step motors.
Learn more about ION® Digital Drives, our compact, fully enclosed modules that provide high-performance motion control, network connectivity and power ...
Learn more about our Magellan® Family of Motion Control ICs that provide breakthrough motion control for medical, scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic ...
Prodigy/CME Machine-Controller Motion Control Board User Guide
Prodigy®/CME Machine-Controller boards provide high-performance motion control for medical, scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications. ...
Prodigy ®/CME PC/104 boards provide all the features of the regular Prodigy PC/104 boards but add the capability to download and run C-language programs ...
Prodigy/CME Stand-Alone Motion Control Board User Guide
Prodigy ®/CME Stand-Alone boards provide high-performance board-level motion control for scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications in a ...
Prodigy®-PC/104 boards provide high-performance board-level motion control for scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications in a PC/104 ...
Learn more about our Prodigy®/CME Machine Controller Boards that provide high-performance motion control for medical, scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications.
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