As usual, the needs of the application play a major role in determining which is the best type of motor to use. As the shift to automation continues to gain momentum in the industrial sector ...

Stepper and servo motors have different attributes when considered for motion applications. Torque curves play an important role in selecting the proper size and type of motor for an application.

[Frank Herrmann] had an interesting idea to turn a geared DC motor into a servo motor assembly, but with a stepper motor-like interface. By stacking some small PCBs behind the motor body ...

but also noted is that servo motors are often what you want instead. This is a topic which we addressed in our recent article on the workings of stepper motors, with particular focus on the 4 ...

A servo drive will run smoother than a stepper ... like back EMF and electrical time constants when they are using stepper motors and drives. This results in an incorrectly configured stepper ...

Stepper motors are often used for positioning since they are cost-effective, easy to drive, and can be used in open-loop systems—meaning that they don’t require position feedback like servo motors.

“This enables the stepper motor to be operated as a servo-motor, with no step loss, no resonance and no risk of overheating,” said the firm. “It is now possible to exploit the advantages of ...

There are many different levels of positioning and motor controls now. Some basic variable frequency ... However, separate motion controllers persist because they perform combined servo and stepper ...

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, controls two-phase bipolar stepper ...

Since many years, several suppliers of frequency inverters, servo controllers, and stepper motors have used the CiA 402 profile as embedded network (system bus system) to link several devices. In ...