Closed-loop stepper motors may be the best choice for tasks typically done by servos because traditional steppers couldn’t handle them.

Servo motors consist of a motor, drive, controller, and a positional feedback device. They can deliver high torque at speeds above 2,000 rpm, and are preferred over stepper motors for variable ...

Like other PCB motors it produces very little torque, roughly 2% of a typical NEMA17 stepper motor. Even so, the engineering behind this project remains impressive.

A sophisticated, compact stepper-motor controller/driver module offers advanced performance and ramping profiles in servo applications.

After servo motors, stepper motors were the next most-commonly used motor type in industry, with 10% of integrators and end users citing their use. Though stepper motors have advantages in terms of ...

Board turns a stepper into a servo Trinamic Motion Control claims to be making the “smallest single-axis servo controller-driver module with integrated motion control”. TMCM-1321, as it is known, ...

Advanced internal current sensing provides better current regulation in bipolar stepper motor drivers, which improves the quality of motion.