When engineers think of advances in motion control technology, they usually think of faster motors, improved accuracy, or seemingly never-ending improvements in MOSFET efficiency. While these advances ...

Monitoring takes the form of sensors and intelligent devices connected to a digital processor. These monitored values are used for computing and then controlling some sort of real-world action. Many ...

The motion controller also creates profiling functions, generating a time-dependent position function which corresponds to the required velocity profile. Typically, the motion requirements are ...

For automating machines that require only two to three axes of electric actuators, pulse outputs may be the simplest way to go. Using pulse outputs from a PLC is a cost-effective way to get simple ...

How does a piezoelectric transducer (actuator) work? Modern Piezo actuators are based on thin piezoceramic layers manufactured in a co-fired process to form a monolithic unit. They are also called ...

Leap Motion debuted in June 2012 with an impressively polished demo, but after its attention-getting debut, the company’s path to market got quite a bit rockier. It had to woo partners on both the ...