EDN

Motor control kit comes with both source code and MATLAB libraries

Looking to reduce the time to market for developers of motor control designs, Technosoft has developed the MCK2812 Kit C Pro-MS(BL) kit designed to support MATLAB's automatic C code generation. In ...
Electronic Design

Create Optimum Vector Control For Brushless Motors

1. Field-oriented control (FOC), also known as vector control, maintains a constant stator field in quadrature with the rotor field irrespective of any bandwidth limitations presented by the PI ...
EDN

Code-free implementation of efficient, sensorless motor control

Designers of motion control applications are under pressure to optimize performance and efficiency while keeping component count and space to an absolute minimum. The ideal situation is sensorless ...
Electronics Weekly

70W brushless motor driver has code-free field-oriented control

Texas Instruments has introduced 70W brushless dc motor drivers with code-free sensor-less ield-oriented or trapezoidal control. In common, the devices include a set of commutation control algorithms ...
Hackaday

Hacking R/C Brushless Motor Controllers For Use In Big Robots

[professor churlz] wrote in to let us know his results with modifying radio control ESCs (Electronic Speed Controllers) for use in a large (250lb range) BattleBot’s drivetrain. It’s a very long and ...
Hackaday

Building A Brushless Motor Controller

Brushless motors and the way in which they are controlled can be a bit of an enigma to those just starting out in hobby electronics. [Andrew] from spingarage thought it would be helpful to put ...
New Electronics

ST reveals new integrated gate drivers for brushless control

STMicroelectronics has introduced the STDRIVE102H and STDRIVE102BH, a new generation of integrated gate drivers for three-phase brushless motors. New generation of integrated gate drivers for ...