A Comprehensible Guide to Servo Motor Sizing - Softcover

Voss, Wilfried

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976511614 ISBN 13: 9780976511618

Publisher: Copperhill Media Corporation, 2007

Synopsis

The Importance of servo motor sizing should not be underestimated. Proper motor sizing will not only result in significant cost savings by saving energy, reducing purchasing and operating costs, reducing downtime, etc.; it also helps the engineer to design better motion control systems. However, the knowledge of mechanical systems and their influence on motor speed, inertia and torque requirements seems to decline in a world where modern technology aspects, such as tuning and programming, seem to be the main focus. The motor sizing process involves a number of mathematical equations, which are most certainly documented, but not necessarily with the motor sizing process in mind. This book focuses primarily on servo motor sizing and it documents in detail the inertia and torque calculations of standard mechanical components and the motor selection process.

About this title

About the Author

Wilfried Voss is the author of the "Comprehensible Guide" series covering topics like Controller Area Network (CAN), SAE J1939, Industrial Ethernet, and Servo Motor Sizing. Mr. Voss has worked in the CAN industry since 1997 and before that was a motion control engineer in the paper manufacturing industry.  He has a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wuppertal in Germany.

Mr. Voss has conducted numerous seminars on industrial fieldbus systems such as CAN, CANopen, SAE J1939, Industrial Ethernet, and more during various Real Time Embedded And Computing Conferences (RTECC), ISA (Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society) conferences and various other events all over the United States and Canada.

Mr. Voss has traveled the world extensively, settling in New England in 1989.  He presently lives in an old farmhouse in Greenfield, Massachusetts with his Irish-American wife and their son Patrick.

Edition details

• Publisher: Copperhill Media Corporation
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976511614
• ISBN 13: 9780976511618
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 158