Batteries provide essential power to the motors, receivers and controllers. For multirotors, the most commonly used batteries are Lithium Polymer (LiPo) types, as their energy efficiency is high. Usually 3-4 cell batteries are used, which provide currents of up to around 5000 mah (miliamperes – hour) capacity. To understand what mah means, consider this example: […]
Bimba Announces Presence in Robot Space: Introduces IntelliAxis™ to Move Loads in Two-Dimensional Plane University Park, IL – July 27, 2017 – Bimba, an industry-leading innovator of pneumatic, hydraulic and electric motion solutions, has introduced IntelliAxis™ multi-axis electric Linear Robot actuators for either X-Z or X-Y motion applications. Employing a one-of-a-kind two-axis system, the unit […]
Tampere, Finland – Jan 16th, 2017 – Granite Devices Inc, a Finnish servo drive manufacturer has released a new industrial servo motor drive contributing high degree of time and cost saving features to the machine automation market. A “swiss knife of motion control” IONI starts a new era of servo drives by bringing snap-on installation, […]
BEI Kimco Magnetics Introduces ‘Smart’ Voice Coil Actuator Featuring Built-in Position Feedback Sensor and Easy Plug and Play Installation VISTA, Calif., − Jan. 16, 2013 – In its continuing commitment to product innovation, BEI Kimco Magnetics, a brand of Custom Sensors & Technologies (CST), Inc., has introduced its latest generation Housed Voice Coil Actuator (VCA), the smart LAS28-53-00A. […]
Electric Motor Solutions is pleased to announced the introduction of the Model ECMDC75A series of DC Brushless Electronically Commutated Motors (ECM) to its product line. As a request with this announcement, we would be pleased to have your magazine publication include a short product announcement highlighting our new motor model series. New Product Announcement 75mm […]
Servo2Go has recently expanded its line of Electric Vehicle Servo Drives from Advanced Motion Controls of Camarillo, CA. The M/V™ series motor controllers are fully functional, four-quadrant servo drives purpose designed and built to operate today’s modern mobile electric vehicular platforms. Specific applications include: mobile robots, AGV’s, UGV’s, material handling and transport vehicles in both […]
Servo2Go.com announces the addition of a new OEM designed economical microstepping drive from Applied Motion Products. The STR2 stepper drive is an ultra compact, digital step & direction drive, great for OEM applications requiring basic step & direction control of a 2-phase step motor. The STR2 outputs up to 2.2 A/phase to the step motor, […]
Roboteq intelligent controller capable of directly driving a brushed DC motor up to 120Amps at up to 50Volts. The LDC1450 is targeted at designers of Industrial Automation systems, mobile robots, automated guided vehicles, animatronics, or any other high power motor control application. The controller accepts commands from analog joystick, standard R/C radio, or RS232 interface, […]
Galil Motion Control, announced the DMC-300xx Pocket Motion Controller Series, their latest generation, single-axis Ethernet motion controller. It combines a high performance motion controller and a 800Watt sine drive in a low cost, compact 3.9″ x 5.0″ x 1.5″ package. The DMC-300xx is also available as a controller-only model which can be connected to a […]
The HS-85BB servo is a micro servo. It is great for small robotic projects especially power demanding ones such as aircraft. It has a 3 pole motor type, and a torque of 3 kg-cm at 4.8V