Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You turn it on, and the heater starts warming up; eventually you ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

I am writing some tight control loops (modulating the speed/current based on the position of the motor) and while I use sleep and its okay it really should be synchronized to the control loop or pid ...

Singapore-based AI startup Sapient Intelligence has developed a new AI architecture that can match, and in some cases vastly outperform, large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, all ...

Recent advances in motion control include high-performance servo drives, AI integration, and enhanced communication protocols like EtherCAT. These advances are designed to improve precision, ...

In the latest post of the Ask the Automation Pros blog series, the pros explore how to deal with interacting PID loops. I kept thinking “what aren’t the sources?!” A plant is full to the brim with ...

This article introduces overall controller effectiveness (OCE) as a new, intuitive metric for evaluating PID loop performance in process industries. It tells how OCE helps process plant teams ...

If you took a shower this morning, you probably didn’t immediately jump into the water. It might have been intuitive to turn on hot and cold water, jump into cold water, open hot water more, continue ...