Motor Drives, Robotics & Controls
June 2022
Bourns expands its POWrFuse High-Power Fuse family with new model PF-F and PF-M series
Bourns, Inc., announced the expansion of the Company’s POWrFuse High-Power Fuse product family. The two new POWrFuse model PF-F and PF-M series are high power rating industrial fuse links specially designed to meet the UL 248-13 semiconductor (aR) standard. These high power fuses ar
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Date:
06/30/2022
40V STripFET F8 MOSFETs Save Energy and Lower Noise
Cutting both on-resistance and switching loss, while optimizing body-diode properties, the STMicroelectronics 40V MOSFETs, STL320N4LF8 and STL325N4LF8AG, save energy and ensure low noise in circuits for power conversion, motor control, and power distribution.
The new 40V N-channel enhanceme
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Date:
06/20/2022
Largest Family of Inductive Position Sensors Includes Solution for ISO 26262-Compliant EV Motor Control Applications
Developers of motor control systems are rapidly replacing Hall Effect position sensors and older magnetic resolver solutions with inductive alternatives that eliminate expensive magnets and other heavy transformer-based structures so they can be integrated onto simple, compact printed circuit boards (PCBs). Ex
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Date:
06/15/2022
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Swarm of tiny drones is able to localize gas leaks
Small autonomous mobile robots, such as drones, rovers, and legged robots, promise to perform a wide range of tasks, from autonomously monitoring crops in greenhouses to last-kilometer delivery. These applications require robots to operate for extended periods while performing complex tasks, often in unknown, ch
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Date:
06/15/2022
Illustration showing the cutting and healing process of the robotic finger (A), its anchoring structure (B) and fabrication process (C).
Researchers from the University of Tokyo pool knowledge of robotics and tissue culturing to create a controllable robotic finger covered with living skin tissue. The robotic digit had living cells and supporting organic material grown on top of it for ideal shaping and strength. As the skin is soft and can ev
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Date:
06/09/2022
RZ/T2M Motor Control MPU
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced Renesas’ highest-performance RZ/T2M motor control microprocessor units (MPUs) for applications such as AC servo drives and industrial robots. The RZ/T2M combines fast and highly precise real-time motor control capabilities and the latest industrial Ethernet on a
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Date:
06/07/2022
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Figure 1: Windings of a three-phase brushless DC motor are driven in a set sequence
The first idea that electricity could be used to produce rotary motion originates in the 1740s in experiments by a Scottish Benedictine monk, Andrew Gordon. It took nearly another century before a practical battery-operated version appeared in 1834 and then, through the work of Tesla and others, the ground wa
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Date:
06/01/2022
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