How the challenges of electric-motor control design can be overcome using digital twins in all design and test phases. How automated testing within a continuous and integrated toolchain is able to ...

Electric motors, which convert electrical energy into mechanical energy, play an essential role in a variety of industrial and robotics applications. Given that electric motors account for ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

Out of the total energy used in the U.S. in a day, a large portion goes to motors. Electric motors in everything from escalators to air conditioners to production machinery consume a tremendous amount ...

A new family of motor-control MCUs from NXP Semiconductors is designed to “rev up” brushless DC (BLDC) and other electric motors that are becoming more widely used in modern cars and industrial motor ...

Most electrical equipment manufacturers provide life and performance expectancies with their equipment in the form of operation and maintenance manuals. Life expectancy is based on the premise that ...

Harley-Davidson has been granted a patent for systems and methods to operate an electric motor in a two-wheeled vehicle. The technology involves detecting control positions, mapping torque requests, ...

The way we control the speed of fan motors or pump motors has tremendously changed in the past two decades with the introduction of variable-frequency drives (VFDs), aka variable-frequency controllers ...

Energy conversion efficiency has always played an important role in electronics design, and in the case of electric motors, the conversion takes place twice: first to create the electricity needed to ...