Variable speed control of a compressor motor significantly reduces both the peak and average energy consumption. However, since the standards for air conditioners require a reduction in the seasonal ...

A novel system architecture, iMOTION, integrates analog, digital, and power building blocks along with control algorithms in a tightly integrated development platform for encoder-based and sensorless ...

While clutch and gearbox assemblies in washing machines have been replaced with belt-driven induction motors with tachometer feedback, digital-control algorithms will enable direct drive from ...

STMicroelectronics has released the STM32 ZeST (Zero Speed Full Torque) software algorithm, designed to run on STM32 microcontrollers, that lets sensorless motor drives produce full torque at zero ...

Freescale Semiconductor’s Kinetis V series of microcontrollers come with a bundled motor control design tool. Intended for sensored and sensorless motor control designs, requiring precise speed and ...

The AC induction motor (ACIM) is the most popular motor used in consumer and industrial applications. The motor is highly reliable, as its simple design has no brushes that could wear out, and it can ...

Texas Instruments has unveiled its InstaSPIN-FOC (field-oriented-control) sensorless motor control technology to its most affordable, real-time-control C2000 Piccolo F2802x microcontrollers (MCUs) ...

Every day engineers design products that employ single-phase induction motors. Speed control of single-phase induction motors is desirable in most motor control applications since it not only provides ...

Sophisticated motor control is no longer the sole province of custom hardware and proprietary control techniques. Advances in powerful, low-cost digital-signal controllers (DSCs) let designers use ...

DALLAS, USA: Highly efficient, three-phase motor control expertise, once only obtainable to a niche market of motor designers, is now available to a wider audience of developers. Texas Instruments (TI ...

A testing machine can be used to push, pull or twist a sample of the material in order to determine the mechanical properties of a material. Many materials are strain rate sensitive which means that ...