Electronic Design

Field-Oriented Control Helps Create Tomorrow’s Cordless Power Tools

If you’ve browsed the aisles in your local building-supply store recently, you’ve no doubt noticed some big changes in the power-tool and garden-appliance sections. Such products range from drills, ...
EDN

Motor control solution simplifies field-oriented control designs

Texas Instruments has announced its InstaSPIN-FOC (field-oriented control) motor control solution – a sensorless software-based solution built on its FAST (flux, angle, speed and torque) algorithm.
EDN

Field-oriented control optimizes industrial motors

Variable-speed drives for three-phase motors are ubiquitous components of industrial systems that help save energy and optimize performance. Traditional, scalar control techniques for variable-speed ...
Electronic Design

Field-Oriented Motor Control

With the new InstaSPIN™-FOC (field-oriented-control) solution from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) designers can identify, tune and fully control (through variable speeds and loads) any type of ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Adds New Position Estimation Control Technology to Its Motor Control Software Development Kit to Simplify Field Oriented Control of Motors

KAWASAKI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has refined motor control capabilities with the launch of two innovative tools. A new position estimation ...
Hackaday

vector control

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its phases. In a ...
Hackaday

SimpleFOC Demystifies Precision BLDC Motor Control

Brushless DC (BLDC) motors are standard fare in low-precision, speedy RC applications. The control schemes needed to run them slowly or precisely go deep into motor theory and might put these motors ...