Today’s ac servo systems are much different than those built even 10 years ago. Faster processors and higher resolution encoders are enabling manufacturers to implement amazing advances in tuning ...

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a modern feedback law that generates the control signal by solving an optimal control problem at each sampling time. This approach is capable of maximizing a certain ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) project, XENDEE Corporation and a DOE national laboratory have ...

Distillation columns are extensively deployed in the chemical process industries when there is a need for separation of components that have different boiling points. Typically, a mixture of ...

A new technique able to forecast how changes to parameters will impact biomanufacturing processes could revolutionize drug production, save manufacturers time and money, and help increase access to ...

A peer-reviewed field study has demonstrated that software-driven controls can allow a standard 120-volt heat-pump water heater to deliver reliable hot water without backup resistance elements, ...

Electrical machines consume nearly half of all the electrical power generated worldwide, making them one of the top contributors to carbon dioxide emissions. If we are to develop sustainable societies ...