Motion and Controls Reference Materials

Description: With the improvement of people's living standards, vacuum cleaners are more and more widely used in homes, shopping malls, car washes, etc. The series pole motors of vacuum cleaners are divided into ...

Description: Canadian researchers at Université Laval develop a novel collaborative robot that can match human agility. ...

Description: If you are working on a project that calls for an electric motor unit, you will certainly have come across the terms IP65, IP67 and IP68. What do these protection ratings cover? Which protection ...

Description: A spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has been given responsibility for a EUR?100 million project by the European Space Agency, ESA. ClearSpace SA now heads a ...

Description: The existing design of Power Motors has improved the optimization of product functions through the application of new technologies and new materials, that is, solving the problem of product ...

Description: A small start-up is set to turn the market for hand prostheses on its head - with an innovative spirit, compact DC motors, and a touch function. ...

Description: The TUfast Eco Team is a student team with around 40 members who design and build a highly efficient electric car every year. In 2016, the team set the world record for the most efficient electric car ...

Description: The spinal cord is a miracle of nature, and it is a long way from being fully understood. At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, a team is building robots to explore the secrets of ...

Description: In millions of years of evolution, nature has produced many sophisticated locomotor systems that engineers use as inspiration for creating better robots. We show some current technical developments ...

Description: A tour through Bristol Robotics Laboratory A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to make a very detailed tour through the Bristol Robotics Laboratory guided by David and I think I have seen the ...

Description: Robotic devices for clinical rehabilitation of patients with neurological impairments come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and employ different kinds of actuators. ...

Description: Stairs are still unsurmountable obstacles for many robots. Yet a young team at ETH Zurich is building a vehicle designed to negotiate steps with ease - by hopping. ...

Description: Students at the University of Ottawa are developing a hip mounted exoskeleton for patients who suffer from muscle atrophy due to a stroke or other debilitating illness which may cause decreased ...

Description: When people look up at the sky, they see more and more drones. Yet the breakthrough for delivery robots will take place on the ground - if the lawmakers give the green light. ...

Description: The bikers of Plateforme Bio Lokal supply fresh organic vegetables to restaurants and bars - quickly and emissionfree. Even 200 kg of potatoes do not faze them. ...

Description: The Empower prosthesis by Ottobock helps its wearer regain lost freedom of movement - using a powerful brushless motor that releases the energy of a calf muscle at every step. ...

Description: All over the world, people suffer from chronic wounds due to diabetes and other causes. A new micro water jet technology promises improved treatment. A powerful flat motor provides the necessary water ...

Description: At present, most of the motors used in meat grinders on the market use series-excited motors with gearboxes. The advantage is that the structure of the motor is relatively simple and the production ...

Description: Bionicman is a different kind of superhero. His futuristic prosthetic hand lends him superhuman powers. He uses these powers to give children with disabilities more confidence-and cool, 3D-printed ...

Description: The European Space Agency (ESA) is working on a new system to enable easy docking between two spacecraft. maxon developed two special drive systems for this purpose. ...

Description: Medical technology has no tolerance for error. This is why maxon micromotors are made in certified cleanrooms. This kind of special facility takes significant effort to build. ...

Description: Under the pressure of environmental concerns, the packaging industry is reorganising. Changing lifestyles and rising raw materials prices have completed this movement. The stakes are high, given that ...

Description: The agricultural sector is undergoing significant changes and is modernising. Reducing difficult working conditions, optimising working time, developing the energy self-sufficiency of farms, ...

Description: Meet the new colleague for the crew of the International Space Station (ISS): an autonomous camera drone. The small sphere films the astronauts at work and this drone could potentially save about ten ...

Description: In France's Bordeaux region, robots ensure that the wine is organically good. They autonomously eliminate grass and weeds between the vines, making pesticides unnecessary. To enable the robots to ...

Description: In view of the Cybathlon 2020, a unique international competition for competitors with disabilities who use bionic assistive technologies, a team of French researchers from the Institute of ...

Description: Our fascination with Mars is stronger than ever. At this very moment, yet another robot called Perseverance is on its way to uncover the secrets of Mars. The mission will also involve the first ...

Description: Power Motor has successfully developed a DC gearbox motor solution for household meat mincer. ...

Description: Integrated Wheel Drives Lower Cost of Mobile Robot Ownership August 25, 2020 - Steven Keeping ElectroCraft's MobilePower™ MPW series integrated wheel drives benefit from the company's decades of ...

Description: With the continuous improvement of our quality of life, people's clothing is branded and the materials used are also exquisite, which brings higher requirements for the washing of clothes. ...

Description: Hardness testers are used to check whether materials have the desired characteristics. These days, this is done in a fully automated, networked process. ...

Description: The sanitary crisis linked to the diffusion of Covid-19 requires everyone to apply measures of social distancing. Motorized and automated solutions are being developed at high speed as a solution. ...

Description: For 21 years, Danny Florence has lived with one hand. But when he became a father, he decided to apply for an Open Bionics Hero Arm. With the help of the maxon driven prosthesis he can now build a ...

Description: Until recently, AGVs were the only option for automating internal transport tasks. Today, a more sophisticated technology is competing with them: Autonomous Mobile Robots AMR. Although both AGVs and ...

Description: While the development of e-commerce requires the design of compact AGVs, the democratisation of autonomous and connected e-mobility vehicles poses safety challenges. In other sectors, it is becoming ...

Description: Where motion is the key to a great cup of coffee, duplicating the precision and reliability of the motion of a person's hand, wrist, and elbow require a unique robotic design. ...

Description: Paralyzed people can learn to walk again with the aid of electromechanical exoskeletons. However, it's not easy. It takes a lot of engineering and hard training. ...

Description: Providing the right motor for small precision devices can be challenging. With the growth and proliferation of collaborative robots, there has become an increased need for a wide variety of grippers ...

Description: To disinfect surfaces without taking risks, the Bataillon de Marins-Pompiers (marine fire service) from Marseille has equipped itself with two Colossus robots. These remote control and highly modular ...

Description: In spring, the famous cathedral of Notre-Dame was damaged in a devastating fire. However, the Paris fire department prevented the complete destruction of the building - with the help of a special unit ...

Description: Based on solving the problems in the motors of the existing household mixers, Power Motor designed an SCR speed-regulating motor to meet customer needs. ...

Description: Kitchen Robot (Multi-Function cooking machine) combines more than 10 kinds of kitchen appliances into one, the functions include weighing, mixing, chopping, grinding, shortener, whipping, cooking, ...

Description: Local Motors, a technology company, faced two different challenges when it set out to build two very different vehicles: the Rally Fighter®, a high-performance off-road machine; and the ...

Description: The meat chopper is no longer just a single function kitchen product, it is now a small size multi-function food processor, consumers can use it to grind meat/garlic/chili/seasonings and so on ...

Description: Using Gantries and ACS-Based Motion Controllers ...

Description: Hexapod technology and available precision parallel positioners ...

Description: How to Connect a Safety Light Barrier to a Hexapod System ...

Description: PMDC motor with gear reducer gets the advantages of low noise, high torque and low speed, which is very suitable for slow juicer. ...

Description: Power Motor will continue to optimize the fan motor solution, so that it is smaller, lighter, more environmentally friendly and energy saving, to meet the fan intelligent control, stepless speed ...

Description: Today's most challenging battery-operated tools require power, speed, and efficiency within the most ergonomic package. Studies have proven that users prefer a smaller and lighter tool with a high ...

Description: reviewing all the factors and how they impact the final product output will enable the ideal performance of our product. Below is a summary table for the factors and the three motor technologies: ...

Description: A Lock-In & Lock-Out Retrofit for Greater Access and Secured Mobility ...

Description: Through the redesign of the permanent magnet DC motor structure, Power Motor has developed High Performance Oil Pump Motor Solutions, the life of up to 500 hours, the efficiency of the motor can reach ...

Description: The Massager BLDC Motor(24V), designed for a famous fascia gun brand, provides the ideal speed and torque for massaging, with long life, low noise, high torque and other advantages. ...

Description: When it comes to step motors, a new drive technique called stepper servo is making everything old new again and winning back machine designers who may have relegated step motors to the category of low ...

Description: Pumps that move liquid precisely are at the heart of a broad array of patient treatment devices and laboratory automation. The first part of PMD's Precision Fluid Handling series will outline the keys ...

Description: Power Motor designed PMDC motor for treadmill particularly according to the various working conditions and overall design requirements ...

Description: The "2020 Coatings Industry-Jung Technology Innovation Award" award ceremony was holding on 9th July. WAGNER new ROCK-25 high power, light and compact screw pump in 2020 was awarded the for coating ...

Description: Selecting proper drive components for a bulk material conveyance system can go a long way toward maintaining optimal performance and extending the lifetime of equipment. The severity of an application ...

Description: Electric motors have innumerable applications. The simple, efficient, reliable conversion from electric power to kinetic rotary output is invaluable to modern industry. Yet, application suitability is ...

Description: Overheating is one of the most common ways to damage electronic and electrical machines. This is especially true for electric motors. ...

Description: Motors for agricultural applications need to be durable and reliable in the harshest conditions. Another important consideration when purchasing a motor is budget. However, the initial price point is ...

Description: Electric motors carry out essential marine tasks in offshore, coastal and inland marine environments. Oil platforms rely on pumps to drive the pumping rod, process recovered oil and transfer it to ...

Description: Preventive safety requires careful selection of equipment, particularly electric motors, in dangerous oil and gas recovery, chemical and petroleum refinery and mining environments. ...

Description: Through the following 13 items of specification, we can have well understanding about your needs, so to customize a satisfactory motor solution for you. ...

Description: Power Motor has done many precise adjustment to the turbine, worm transmission and motor itself, to make it have characteristics with low noise, stable operation, long life, light weight, small ...

Description: Power Motor designed an ultra-high-speed(100,000rpm) brushless motor, the motor integrated the motor and wind chamber, adopt high-performance magnetic steel(N42), and turbine blade to realize the ...

Description: Power Motor designed a new motor combination system-PGM.W192-68 for noodle machine ...

Description: Learn how Mitchell Mill Systems, a Canada-based agribusiness company, removed glitches in their cutting operations with a subscription to Hypertherm's ProNest LT nesting and process optimization ...

Description: Whether you're an OEM looking for a more effective track and trace solution, or a brand owner battling counterfeits and knock-offs, you know how much value permanent marking can add. But you also know ...

Description: There are many pieces to selecting the correct stopping brake for a particular application. It uses many of the components of selection for gear reducers, chain and belt drives and motors, but has ...

Description: There are many pieces to selecting the correct clutch brake for a particular application. It uses many of the components of selection for gear reducers, chain and belt drives and motors, but has some ...

Description: The following test demonstrates that a nanopositioning system with PicoQ® sensor technology (model Nano-HS3) has sufficiently low position noise and high accuracy to resolve single atomic steps ...

Description: Below, the surface roughness of a well-known sample is measured with a Mad City Labs AFM. The results of this test are significant because large position noise in a nanopositioner can obscure an AFM's ...

Description: The results of these tests are significant; if a nanopositioner's inherent position noise is larger than 0.1 nm, it cannot move in externally-detectable 95 pm step intervals. The AFM measurements ...

Description: Position sensors are the most critical elements in any closed loop nanopositioning system. Mad City Labs nanopositioning systems use proprietary PicoQ® sensor networks. PicoQ® sensor are in ...

Description: Mad City Labs closed loop nanopositioning systems are capable of providing picometer level positioning. Position noise, the lower limit on controllable motion, can be thought of as the true ...

Description: DC motor drives are widely used across multiple sectors, including medical and life sciences, industrial automation, robotics, agriculture, military and defense, energy and transportation. ...

Description: Piezo, Voice Coil & Linear Motors for High Dynamics & Precision ...

Description: DC Brushless Motor Generator is a modern generator that has outstanding features that makes it very efficient. ...

Description: Gear Motor Selection - gearbox choice for a industry application ...

Description: At the beginning of a new product development, how to choose the motor type and model suitable for the product? POWER collated 19 years of customized and R & D motor data for customers, summarized the ...

Description: how to select motor and what information should provide for tailor-made proposal ...

Description: different performance vacuum cleaner motor - power Motor can quickly design different performance vacuum cleaner motor for home and industry. ...

Description: The factors influence the motor noise - special motor design method and material selection, greatly reducing the noise of the motor ...

Description: Thanks to a very innovative motion system architecture, ETEL S.A. has released on the market a new platform able to meet simultaneously accuracy and throughput to an unprecedented level. ...

Description: Testing e-drives doesn't have to be difficult. See how Gantner's simple yet powerful edge computing solutions make testing a breeze for a large automotive supplier. ...

Description: Stepper motors are mostly driven in open loop mode. Timing of the step pulses is defined by the controller, the motor is supposed to follow without loosing synchronism. ...

Description: There is a current increasing trend in requests for Brushless DC motors for high speed applications. For instance, new impeller technology changed the way modern respirators are designed to be more ...

Description: Medical analyzers are the workhorse of the medical diagnostics industry. They are versatile tools with multiple functions; from testing human bodily fluids such as blood, and urine, to processing ...

Description: Medical diagnostics are a part of everyday life, whether going to the doctor for a routine physical and blood work or heading to the emergency room. Doctors rely on the results from medical analyzers ...

Description: The pipette is a basic fluid control tool for transferring tiny amounts of liquids. Electronic or motorized pipettes are an ergonomic alternative to manual pipettes and an efficient way to increase ...

Description: Stepper motors are generally driven in open loop mode. The controller defines timing of the pulses sent to the driver. The motor must be strong enough to move the load without loss of synchronism. ...

Description: The creation of small, portable infusion pumps opened a new chapter in medical care. A patient can receive carefully metered and timed doses of medicine, without requiring a visit to the medical ...

Description: Many applications using miniature brushed DC motors require motors to operate at more than one load point or through specific load cycles. Running a motor at usable load points requires a variable, ...

Description: As the art of tattoos has evolved, so have the machines designed to turn ink into living art. The process requires reciprocating needles that repeatedly penetrate the dermal skin at a high rate of ...

Description: Shenzhen is an important LED production base and trade center and has a complete industrial chain and supporting capacity, in the fierce market competition, peers are fighting the price and ...

Description: The outer rotor BLDC motors from Power could deliver stable high torque, compact size and long service life for different applications. ...

Description: The heart of a multi-axis automation system is the ability to synchronize the motion of multiple motors to a designated "master" source device. ...

Description: Cut-to-length process uses a rotary knife cutter and "recipe" storage to create flexible automation solution. A web of material is fed into the machine by a prime mover. ...