Hackaday

Use A Brushless Motor As A Rotary Encoder

The electric motor is the fundamental building block of almost all robotic projects but, without some form of feedback, it lacks the precise positional control required for the task. Small servos from ...
Electronic Design

New-Look Position-Encoder Interfaces Enhance Motor Control

Position encoders are sensors that, when used in industrial settings, produce critical motor information such as speed and position. The encoder delivers data for display or data that may serve as ...
EDN

Timing the Commutation Channels of an Optical Encoder to a Brushless Motor

Alignment of optical encoder commutation signals to a Brushless DC (BLDC) motor could be thought of as being comparable to timing the distributor on a car engine. The distributor tells the spark plugs ...
Machine Design

Evaluating Angle Encoders’ Effects on Motors

Why are there so many different angle encoders on the market? Why do they use different scanning and measuring methods? And which one should a designer choose? To answer those questions, engineers at ...
Electronic Design

MRI Encoder Receives “Project Of The Year” Award

Micronor recently was named recipient of the 2013 ASME Channel Islands Project Of The Year Award for its development of the MR338 MRI Absolute Encoder. Micronor recently was named recipient of the ...