Frank J. Bartos, P.E.

latest from Frank J. Bartos, P.E.

Figure 2: A prime example of mechatronic integration is the combining of motor and drive components into one package. Exploded view of an integrated step motor shows the technique, which is applicable to other electric motor types as well. Courtesy: Applied Motion

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5 enduring developments in electronic motion control

Top is a Yaskawa motion control timeline, lower left is a Siemens Industry decentralized drives architecture, and lower right shows Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley Kintex 5500 servo drives. Courtesy: companies above.

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Electronic motion control, then and now

Yaskawa Electric’s Sigma brushless servo motors (left) have gotten smaller, and Siemens Sinamics S120M servo motor mounts the drive power devices on the motor. Courtesy: companies mentioned.

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Electric motors’ influence on motion control

Some 78 technical papers were presented during the three-day run of EEMODS `11.

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EEMODS ’11—efficient motor systems conference: standards, new technologies

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EEMODS ’11—successful 1st U.S. staging of efficient motor systems conference

Transformerless medium-voltage drives perspective

Inverter topologies: Voltage-source or current-source

Discrete Manufacturing

Microchips doing more for motor, motion control

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Chip-level motor, motion control vendors

Motors and Drives

Servos help all-electric tube bending machine suppliers; see list

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Electric servo precision for tube bending

Rise of the PM machines