Researchers built and tested a low-cost 3D-printed robotic arm that lifted a 0.8 kg payload successfully in all ten ...

A fifteen-day field trial in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia showed a GPS-and-gyroscope dual-axis solar tracker built for under 100 ...

Over on the ESP32 subreddit, the owner of Sacrebleu Studio showed off their cool light switch console that runs off an ...

Retrofitting legacy computer numerical control (CNC) equipment presents both a challenge and an opportunity. Older machines are often still mechanically sound but rely on proprietary or unsupported ...

Jakob Roze, CSCS, is a health writer and high-end personal trainer. He is the founder and CEO of RozeFit, a high-end concierge personal training practice and online blog. Choosing between the ...

Maintaining appropriate foot-ground contact is important for walker-assisted lower-limb exoskeleton training. Excessive plantar loading may increase initial-contact impact and actuator load, whereas ...

Motor control integrated circuits (ICs) and motor drives are essential elements for implementing smart manufacturing within the framework of Industry 4.0. A common requirement in modern industrial ...

The design of different three-phase brushless DC motors and how they generate torque. How magnetics, construction, and other factors impact torque, speed, and smoothness in BLDC motors. General ...

When it comes to communications in motion systems, there are a range of options depending on the specific type of use case. For instance, connecting together a series of drives and motors with ...

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its phases. In a ...

Bipolar stepper motors provide precise position control while operating in an open loop. Industrial automation applications—such as robots and processing and packaging machinery—and consumer ...

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) defines a servo device as “an adjustable-speed AC power drive system that includes an AC motor integrated by feedback, a converter, and control, ...