TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG launched its first family of smart brushless DC (BLDC) motors with field-oriented control (FOC). The new additions to the company’s PANdrive product family of ...
With the new InstaSPIN™-FOC (field-oriented-control) solution from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), designers can identify, tune and fully control (through variable speeds and loads) any type of ...
If you’ve browsed the aisles in your local building-supply store recently, you’ve no doubt noticed some big changes in the power-tool and garden-appliance sections. Such products range from drills, ...
Modern brush DC electric motors have been used in the industry for almost 180 years, but they have several drawbacks. Efficiency is compromised by poor brush contact and arcing between the brushes and ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Power Integrations (NASDAQ: POWI), the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today announced MotorXpert™ v3.0, a software ...
This study investigates the use of a closed-loop speed control approach based on fuzzy logic for brushless DC (BLDC) motors in Electric Vehicle (EV) applications. The primary objective is to overcome ...
Our project focuses on improving the control system for an electric-vehicle motor, previously used in a racing competition by the UDA E-Team (short for Universidad del Azuay, Ecuador). This project ...
This study investigates a novel dual-loop control strategy that combines sliding mode and model predictive controllers to reduce torque ripple in high-performance Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) ...
A knob can make a surprisingly versatile interface, particularly if it’s the SmartKnob, which builds a knob around a BLDC motor for programmable haptic response. It can rotate freely or with a set ...