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CLEVELAND, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LineStream Technologies, an innovator of software-based motor control solutions, has collaborated with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) to launch InstaSPIN(TM)-MOTION, the performance pinnacle of TI's InstaSPIN(TM) family. Powered by LineStream's SpinTAC(TM) software, InstaSPIN-MOTION streamlines the design process and improves system performance of motor-controlled products ranging from washing machines to medical robots. "Software is...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Finesse Solutions, Inc., a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life sciences process applications, announced the launch of its new SmartParts(TM) family of intelligent transmitters and actuators. SmartParts are the building blocks for Finesse's next generation of bioreactor controller systems that are intelligent and universal. In this context intelligent and universal indicate that they have plug-and-play...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers from MIT and Georgia Tech have adapted techniques that ensure airplanes won’t stall out during flight to prove that computer programs will not divide by zero. Specifically, the researchers demonstrated how to apply principles from control theory, which analyzes dynamical systems ranging from robots to power grids, to something known as “formal verification,” a set of methods for mathematically proving that a...

Motion control products distributor Highland Controls today released an expanded version of its web site with more products and free tips. (PRWEB) March 06, 2013 Highland Controls, which focuses on motion control product selection and application programming, today released an updated web site with the industry's top brands and free resources. "Our new design is much more user friendly," Highland Controls President Brian Beal says. "We've had excellent feedback from...

Actuator saturation is ubiquitous in engineering systems. Anti-windup approach to dealing with actuator saturation has been receiving considerable attention from both the industry and the academic community during the past decades. Professor Zongli Lin and his student Xiongjun Wu developed a new anti-windup design paradigm that is capable of achieving significantly improved performances of the resulting closed-loop system. Their work, entitled "Design of multiple anti-windup loops for...

Optical Society of America New device for delivering light to individual neurons could one day help treat Parkinson's disease, epilepsy; aid understanding of consciousness, how memories form A new tool for neuroscientists delivers a thousand pinpricks of light to a chunk of gray matter smaller than a sugar cube. The new fiber-optic device, created by biologists and engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, is the first tool that can deliver precise...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers from Stanford University have isolated the neurons responsible for determining whether or not exerting effort in order to complete a task is worth the energy that said effort will require -- a discovery which could help medical professionals better deal with depression and other brain-related disorders. According to the university, many psychiatrists believe that a person's "will to act" originates from the prefrontal...

SAGINAW, Mich., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wineman Technology, Inc., the leader in providing the right technical solution for solving a wide range of test applications, today announced it delivered a successful flight control simulation system to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). SNC needed a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) flight surface actuation simulator to verify design and performance of the flight control system for the Dream Chaser commercial transport spacecraft. Wineman...

Research shows not all feedback is good for you People who give positive encouragement and constructive criticism could be wasting their breath according to the latest research from a psychology expert at Queen Mary, University of London. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, found that when people received either positive or negative feedback about their performance on complex decision-making tasks, it made their decision making worse. Study author Dr Magda...

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NIWeek - Wineman Technology, Inc. today announced at NIWeek upgrades to RAPID, an integrated, multi-loop control and data acquisition system for test cell applications that demand quick development and low-cost deployment. RAPID provides engineers with high-speed, 4 kHz, digital PID loop closure with spare analog and digital inputs to provide extensive data-logging capabilities. The 19-inch, 3U, rack-mount controller provides real-time...