An interesting trend in industrial motion control has been the replacement of self-contained encoders (rotation sensors with their own housing, bearings and shaft) with modular or “kit” encoders.

OptiTrack is an Arduino-based optical encoder system developed for real-time rotation monitoring and pulse counting applications. The system utilizes an infrared (IR) sensor and a slotted encoder ...

The main variables in a science experiment are the independent variable, the dependent variable and the control variables. The Independent Variable is what we change or control in the experiment. The ...

Newton's first law can also be used to explain the movement of objects travelling with non-uniform motion. This includes situations when the speed changes, the direction changes, or both change. For ...