Precisely tracking speed, acceleration, and position of a motor's rotor is an essential requirement for many motor control applications found in everyday equipment such as fax machines, elevators, and ...

PC/104 architecture offers designers a wide variety of low-cost, off-the-shelf modules for reduced budget or short turn-around projects. For example, ACCES I/O Products recently announced a new line ...

Goniometer Stages with 18 Arcsecond Repeatability, +/- 24 Degrees of Travel, and High Load Capacity! Van Nuys, CA — The AK170 ...

As wireless technology evolves, manufacturers face the challenge of redesigning products to support the latest connectivity protocols, increasing both cost ...

Optical encoders are critical components in systems with rotating shafts or parts. Optical rotary encoders are the most widely used way to transform mechanical rotary motion into electrical signals.

Quadrature encoders have many uses in position-sensing applications. This implementation uses a Xilinx complex programmable logic device (CPLD) to count the pulses from the encoder and determine the ...

Initially, the introduction of the digital signal processor (DSP) into motion control was meant to solve problems relating to flexibility, size, precision, cost, and ease of maintenance in the motion ...