The versatile Motor Mind C dc motor-control system can control one or two brushed dc motors. In serial mode, users have direct control of the motor speed and direction. When configured for two motors, ...

Tech editor Bill Wong takes a look at Texas Instruments CAN Motor Control reference design kit (RDK) that includes the CAN-based LM3S2965 Evaluation Board. Last year Texas Instrument’s (TI) acquired ...

Designing robots requires precision and flexibility. When creating a humanoid robot system, there are mechanical and electrical considerations that you need to understand before beginning the actual ...

Toshiba has introduced PC-based design tools for motor control, as part of ‘MCU Motor Studio’ which includes firmware its TXZ+4A microcontrollers and hardware evaluation boards. “The MCU Motor Studio ...

Built to measure the movement, location or displacement of an object along a linear or rotational path, position sensing in humanoid robots is needed to detect movement and convert it into signals ...

Over three decades ago, real-time software was predominantly written in assembly language or a combination of assembly and the C programming language. Even today, certain digital signal processing ...

Two new reference designs aim to simplify the industrial and home-appliance motor drives for compressors, respectively while being accompanied by production-ready PCB and motor-control firmware. The ...

Researchers have uncovered in anglerfish a specialized motor neuron population for the first dorsal fin used for 'fishing'. When the first dorsal fin evolved from a swimming and buoyancy aid to a ...