Motor Drives, Robotics & Controls
June 2024
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Figure 1: StrongIRFET™ and OptiMOS™ power MOSFET portfolio
The rapidly evolving world of electronics fuels the need for more efficient, powerful, and compact components. This drive for innovation extends to silicon power MOSFETs, where substantial efforts are dedicated to enhancing capabilities for a wide range of power electronic applications, including drives, switched
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Date:
06/28/2024
Three Phase EMC Filters from EMIS Designed for Motor and Power Drive Systems
The global EMC solutions provider EMIS offer a range of three phase, dual stage EMC filters designed for motor and power drive systems. The TMF3221/TMF3222 family can provide superior attenuation performance and suppress conducted noise even when high interference levels are present.
The TMF3221/TMF3222 are housed in a
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Date:
06/17/2024
Researchers use Large Language Models to Help Robots Navigate
Someday, you may want your home robot to carry a load of dirty clothes downstairs and deposit them in the washing machine in the far-left corner of the basement. The robot will need to combine your instructions with its visual observations to determine the steps it should take to complete this task.
For an AI age
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Date:
06/17/2024
Artificial Intelligence Strategy May Promise More Widespread Use of Portable Robotic Exoskeletons — on Earth and in Space
Safer, more efficient movements for factory workers and astronauts, and improved mobility for people with disabilities could someday become a more widespread reality, thanks to new research published June 12 in the journal “Nature.”
Called “exoskeletons,” wearable robotic frameworks for the human
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Date:
06/12/2024
New Incremental Encoder Supports Smaller Shaft Sizes from 1 to 6.35 mm
CUI Devices’ Motion and Control Group announced the introduction of a new model to its AMT incremental encoder family that supports smaller motor shaft sizes from 1 mm to 6.35 mm (1/4 inch). The AMT12 series, based on CUI Devices' proprietary capacitive ASIC technology, brings the same
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06/11/2024
WeEn Semiconductors Extends Range of Advanced SiC Technologies with TSPAK Packaging
WeEn Semiconductors, specialists in developing and manufacturing advanced power semiconductor products, has unveiled new families of silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs and Schottky Barrier Diodes (SBDs) in TSPAK packaging at this year’s PCIM Europe exhibition and conference.
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Date:
06/11/2024
CISSOID Ingenuity Facilitates Faster Inverter Development
CISSOID, a leader in power semiconductor solutions, is introducing the compact EVK-PLA1060 series of On-Board Inverter Reference Designs. This exciting advance further reduces time-to-market for R&D engineers in the highly dynamic and rapidly evolving e-mobility arena. The increasingly wide range of Silicon Ca
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Date:
06/11/2024
Power Integrations Revs Up Motor-Drive Offering With BridgeSwitch-2 BLDC IC Family
Power Integrations enhanced its hardware-software bundle for brushless DC motors (BLDC) with BridgeSwitch™-2, a new high-voltage integrated half-bridge (IHB) motor-driver IC family targeting applications up to 1 HP (746 W). The new ICs, which feature high- and low-side drivers and advanced FREDFETs wi
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Date:
06/11/2024
Dynamometer Line for Testing Electric Motor Efficiency to Meet International Environmental Standards
Dynamometer Line for Testing Electric Motor Efficiency to Meet International Environmental Standards
SAKOR Technologies Inc., a recognized leader in the area of high-performance dynamometer systems, announces that it has developed a series of dynamometer systems ideal for customers required to test and verify the level of efficiency of electric motors in accordance with a variety of national and international st
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Date:
06/04/2024
Kevin Parmenter, Director, Applications Engineering. TSC, America
In the ever-evolving landscape of robotics, the areas of motor drives and controls are the two indispensable pillars driving progress towards “Industry 4.0.” A recent report from Siemens valued the global robotics, motor drives and controls market size at nearly 13 billion $US in 2022 with expectations to
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Date:
06/01/2024
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Figure 1: Block diagram of a Modular six-phase Fault Tolerant drive
Safety and reliability can be achieved if the electrical drive can identify and manage the fault, in the fastest way possible, ensuring the safe operations. Multiphase motor drives, like the system described in this article, can sustain multiple fault events maintaining performance comparable with normal conditions.
This article d
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Date:
06/01/2024
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Figure 1: Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality, Casper Jones, 2008
Quality assurance stands as a pivotal aspect of software and hardware development, especially when it comes to embedded motor control applications. However, testing to ensure automotive quality tends to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, frequently sidelined in practice. As a result, critical errors are of
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Date:
06/01/2024
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Figure 1 - Cobots offer a vast potential to improve the efficiency of industrial processes
Robots are nothing new. Indeed, the first industrial robot was first developed some 70 years ago in 1954 for the automotive industry. The increasing adoption of robots promises vast potential benefits to productivity and efficiency not just in manufacturing but across a wide range of industries.
However, a major i
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Date:
06/01/2024
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Figure 1: The key difference between AGVs and AMRs
Through increased levels of automation, not only can the expense of having human operatives conduct laborious tasks be avoided, but numerous other benefits may also be derived - with facilities able to run round the clock, the elimination of costly errors, and greater safety being among them. Furthermore, staff ca
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Date:
06/01/2024
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Figure 1: Faction Delivery Vehicles rely on Point One Navigation’s RTK Correction services to know where they are and where they are going
In today’s engineering tasks, location precision is more critical than ever — particularly when it comes to accurately measuring geospatial positioning. From construction and farming to building and operating autonomous vehicles, pinpoint accuracy is critical for safety and efficiency. Whether using drones to
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Date:
06/01/2024
Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD
Welcome to the June edition of Power Systems Design Europe. PCIM will be opening its doors from the 11th to 13th of the month in the Nuremberg Messe. If your company is exhibiting there and has any news that will debut at the show, please drop me an email on ally@powersystemsdesign.com and I’ll try arrange a time to drop by on your st
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Date:
06/01/2024
Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD
In less than a month, we can officially say arrivederci to cold weather and hola to summer! Personally, I prefer the “middle” seasons, but this spring has been exceptionally cold. So I’m begging for the return of 天気がいいです, or nice weather.
This month brings us higher temperatures and als
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Date:
06/01/2024
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