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Bob Mullins from Harmonic Drive gives a run-down of some of their featured offerings, including hollow shaft actuators and custom servo actuators. Servo actuators are an assembly of a brush or brushless servo motor, zero backlash Harmonic Drive precision...
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Harmonic Drive demonstrates semiconductor equipment using their drives and actuators, a MECHATROLINK II servo network, and Soft Servo Systems' SMP controller. The SMP series is a line of general motion controller with up to 32 axes (soon to be 64...
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Bob Mullins explains the operating principles behind the Harmonic Drive strain wave gearing. The mechanism is comprised of three components: Wave Generator, Flexspline, and Circular Spline. The high performance attributes of this gearing technology including...
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Harmonic Drive offers precision gears, gear heads, servo actuators and motion control systems. Harmonic Drives come in many variations and are used in such applications as multi-axis articulated robots, industrial robots, medical equipment, and optical...
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The Busch Mink is a rotary claw-type, positive displacement, dry pump designed for either pressure or vacuum applications. Vacuum or pressure is produced by two non-contacting rotors in an oil-free pumping chamber. The dry, non-contacting design, along...
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The interplay of fluidic muscles and mechatronic systems in the Airmotion_ride makes it possible to generate an extraordinary range of driving and flight simulations. A hexapod structure using parallel kinematics, with six Festo fluidic muscles, creates...
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The air bearing ATBT from Festo is a new way of transporting flat-panel displays and photovoltaic substrates. The air bearing works with a porous, air-permeable material with a micro porous structure which guarantees an even air flow. The key to the system...
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Festo's version of the delta robot, the EXPT Electric Tripod system, is designed for high-speed-handling of small loads in space. Up to three times quicker than Cartesian systems and requiring less space, it uses Festo's actuator technology instead...
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The CMXR is the core of a complete kinematic system solution: The multi-axis control combines the mechanical system, electrical drive technology and control technology to form a complete motion control product with integrated and standardized interfaces...
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Jude Hueber reveals the process at Lightning Hybrids for designing and fabricating their LH4 and LH3 vehicles in-house, from the drivetrain and the body panels, to their own custom designed circuitry. Lightning Hybrids is an automotive research and manufacturing...
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Dan Johnson from Lightning Hybrids discusses their original design for the international Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE competition. They have an aggressive plan to win with their unique patent-pending biodiesel-hydraulic hybrid vehicle that...
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Engineering TV continues its in-depth coverage of Lightning Hybrids as Dan Johnson digs deeper into their hydraulic drivetrain design. He also addresses some questions about safety as well as how the weight of the system compares to an electric-hybrid...
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Jude Hueber, Lightning Hybrids Senior Engineer - Powertrain, Controls and Chassis - describes why they chose a parallel hydraulic system in their design. Depending on how the electrical controls are arranged, a parallel system can serve to lessen the...
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Dan Johnson continues his detailing of the hydraulic drivetrain used in the Lightning Hybrids vehicles. The 2010 and 2011 versions of the LH3 and LH4 will showcase a 90 HP Diesel/BioDiesel engine currently rated at 90 MPG in Europe, mated in parallel...
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Dan Johnson, Lightning Hybrids CEO and Co-Founder, walks us through the hydraulic drivetrain used in their LH4 and LH3 models. Their parallel hydraulic hybrid system is similar to many of the electric hybrid vehicles on the market today wherein a conventional...