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Brian Pinkham from NB Corporation of America talks with Ken Korane from MACHINE DESIGN about issues facing design engineers of motion systems. 5:47
The Racing Green Endurance project needed to create a control system for a 200 km/hr all-electric race car they planned to drive along the Pan-American highway from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina
Jeramè Chamberlain of Nippon Pulse America looks at what goes into prototyping a motion control system. 6:00
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Board-level motion controllers typically contain one or more circuit boards mounted in a card-rack chassis.
A number of commercially available board-level computers are targeted specifically at servocontrol.
Manufacturers have also developed special-purpose ICs that handle tasks needed to implement both closed-loop motion control and motor speed control.
Motion control today takes place under the guidance of computers, solid-state logic, or pneumatic sequencers.
Definitions of motion control vary widely in industry today.
Master-slave systems are common in web presses where one or more axes must follow the speed and acceleration of a master axis.
A number of positioning components are commonly employed in industrial closed-loop systems today.
A programmable logic controller, or PLC, is a software-based equivalent of a relay panel.
The most recent class of control techniques to be used are collectively referred to as adaptive control.
Simple closed-loop control has been used for decades to perform machine tool contouring.
A technique called dual-loop control is sometimes used to compensate for instabilities caused by backlash.
