Renishaw (www.renishaw.com) has developed new linear encoders that feature a special stainless steel scale, ultralow ±30 nm cyclic error, patented filtering optics and ±4μm accuracy to deliver the ...

Myriad applications require custom torque motors — including hard-machining table drives, mirror millers, and measuring and grinding machines. In fact, machine builders for these applications are now ...

New generations of absolute encoders are compact and accurate enough to handle direct-drive robot designs now on the drawing board. The semiconductor industry is beginning to realize it has a good ...

Last year, Automation World examined the differences between accuracy, resolution, and precision in the encoder world. And while understanding the differences among these terms is important to ...

An unexpected revisit to my earlier post on mouse encoder hacking sparked a timely opportunity to reexamine quadrature encoders, this time with a clearer lens and a more targeted focus on their signal ...

Epiphan Video’s Pearl family of hardware encoders is growing with the upcoming release of Pearl Nano, a versatile single-channel encoder that offers a refined yet powerful feature set in a compact ...