In 2012, Automation World published an article looking at the decision factors faced when choosing electric or pneumatic actuators. More than a decade later, manufacturing engineers and OEMs still ...

Some people are still leery of closed-loop motion control when both position and pressure control are needed. Hence, they put two different valves on their system, one for position control, and one ...

The force signal from the strain gage in the load cell feeds back to the motor-drive amplifier, forming a closed-loop force-control system. Industrial applications such as welding, grinding, and ...

The word servo has become synonymous with the words servomotor, servomechanism, and servosystem to indicate a closed-loop controlled system. A servo is most simply defined as any driven mechanism ...

This application note presents a closed light regulation loop using LED and MLX75305 in a minimal number of components. It provides a design example for prototype and evaluation, and describes ...