By Steve Meyer, Contributing Editor Will your kids be begging you for this amazing robot in 2014? Sometimes, a designer’s main mechatronic challenge is to make something that is normally big and complex into something small and inexpensive. Such is the case with MIP robots. MIP stands for Mobile Inverted Pendulum. It is one solution […]
Time and Control 2
The movement to smaller intervals of time has dramatic implications in the field of control. Processing power and dramatic reductions in cost are making the future of the industry much more difficult to manage. When the cost barrier to implementing sophisticated control systems drops low enough, there will be an influx of new applications that […]