Most industrial ac motors are three-phase designs that are at least 60% more efficient than single-phase motors, with excellent speed-control potential. In controlling this range of motors, your ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Take a look at a modern motor controller and one of the first things you'll notice is that the control circuit is about ...

Renesas has revealed MCUs with dual 800MHz Arm Cortex-R52 cores and Ethernet for motor control in ac servo drives, inverters and industrial robots. “RZ/T2M is capable of controlling the servo motors ...

The 10 billion electric motors sold each year are about to get a face lift. Ubiquitous brushed motors, introduced in the early 19th century, rely on mechanical commutation of electric current in ...

Smart ICs increasingly handle complicated schemes such as field-oriented control. It is no secret that any equipment that either heats or cools is coming under great scrutiny as governments ...

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its phases. In a ...

Future Market Insights (FMI) has recently published a report titled "Motor Control IC Market: Global Industry Analysis 2013-2017 and Opportunity Assessment 2018-2027." Motor Control IC is a device or ...

For motor applications, engineers have several options at their disposal. Typically, engineers can choose between direct-current (DC) or alternating-current (AC) motors. Machine Design has covered the ...