Every day, consumers interact with systems that assess their surroundings and act accordingly.  In this article, we explain the functional blocks of a real-time control system and provide an example of a robotics application.

MCT8316A provides a single-chip, code-free sensorless trapezoidal solution for customers requiring high speed operation (up to 3kHz electrical) or very fast startup time (<50ms) for 12- to 24-V brushless-DC motors up to 8-A peak current.

TMS320F280025C is a member of the C2000™ real-time microcontroller family of scalable, ultra-low latency devices designed for efficiency in power electronics, including but not limited to: high power density, high switching frequencies, and supporting the use of GaN and SiC technologies.

In this article, we take a closer look at the first functional block of real-time control systems – sensing – and discuss how to optimize data capture for real-time control systems by paying attention to certain sensor parameters.

This e-book provides a variety of often used system-level design formulae and important real-time control concepts to help facilitate your real-time control application design.

Designing systems with BLDC motors can be challenging, because it usually requires complex hardware and optimized software designs to deliver reliable real-time control.  In this article, we discuss three methods to speed BLDC motor system design, while still delivering an energy efficient, smarter and smaller solution.