From industrial and collaborative robot arms to mobile robots and the latest humanoids, designers strive for ever lighter and more compact designs. At the same time, they need to handle increasingly heavy payloads and meet fast operating specifications. This is where motor science becomes essential, according to a speaker at RoboBusiness 2024.
At 2:45 p.m. PT on Oct. 16, Todd Brewster, director of electromagnetic engineering at Kollmorgen, will discuss the evolution of motor science, from theory to action. He will examine the technology‘s role in enabling robots to satisfy industrial demands and to be commercially successful.
Brewster’s session, which will be on Day 1 of RoboBusiness, will share insights into how motors can be designed to improve thermal dynamics and robot efficiency. In addition, he will discuss how to design high-performance systems while also considering weight, size, and cost factors.
Attendees can learn engineering criteria for evaluating robot designs and determining the performance specifications and operating lives of their systems. Brewster will cover:
- Technical formulas behind motor performance
- Primary causes of heat losses seen in motor design and their trade-offs
- How optimized motor design improves heat management in robotic system designs
About the motor science expert and Kollmorgen
Brewster has more than 32 years of experience in the electromagnetic design of permanent magnet motors at Kollmorgen. This experience includes designing high-efficiency motors for a wide range of industrial and medical applications including servos, elevators, electric vehicles, heart pumps, and robots.
Brewster earned his electrical engineering degree at Virginia Tech.
Radford, W.Va.-based Kollmorgen will be exhibiting at Booth 325 at on the expo floor at RoboBusiness. The Regal Rexnord brand has more than 100 years of motion experience and provides frameless motors, drives, cabling and connectors, and automated guided vehicle (AGV) control systems.
Kollmorgen recently added VDA 5050 interoperability support to its fleet manager for AGVs and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and its customers include DB Schenker. The company also provides motion control platforms, other components, and systems integration services.
Kollmorgen will again be an exhibitor at RoboBusiness. Source: Kollmorgen
Learn best practices for business, engineering at RoboBusiness
In addition to enabling tech and robotics innovation, RoboBusiness 2024 focuses on investments and business topics related to running a robotics company. Keynote talks at the event in Santa Clara, Calif., will include:
- Rodney Brooks, co-founder and chief technology officer at Robust AI
- Claire Delaunay, chief technology officer at farm-ng
- Sergey Levine, co-founder of Physical Intelligence and associate professor at UC Berkeley
- Torrey Smith, the co-founder and CEO of Endiatx
More than 70 experts will be on stage at RoboBusiness sharing best practices for commercial robotics development. Over 70 exhibitors will be on the show floor. It will also include a Women in Robotics Luncheon, the Pitchfire startup competition, a startup bootcamp, 10+ hours of dedicated networking, and much more!
Register now for RoboBusiness, which is co-located with DeviceTalks West. The events produced by WTWH Media, which also publishes The Robot Report, Automated Warehouse, and Collaborative Robotics Trends, as well as produces the Robotics Summit & Expo.
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