Microstepping is a major advancement in step motor technology introduced many years ago that allows motors to make finer steps in movement. By manipulating the current vector, microstepping creates ...

The DRV8711 is a stepper motor controller that uses external N-channel MOSFETs to drive a bipolar stepper motor or two brushed DC motors. A microstepping indexer is integrated, which is capable of ...

Stepper motors are brushless synchronous electric motors powered by direct current that rotate in steps, keeping the rotor stationary under a specific power supply. A well-defined sequence of PWM ...

Stepmotors or steppers are used in myriad industries today, because they're affordable and reliable. The advent of microstepping drives in particular has improved stepmotor smoothness and accuracy, ...

Innovations improving smoothness of motion, miniaturizing designs, and networking are still moving microstepping technology ahead 25 years after it provided a revolutionary solution for position ...

If an engineer using a full-step, 5-phase motion system wants to improve performance without a complete redesign, then switching to a 5-phase system with microstepping capability may do the trick.

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Microstepping a two-phase stepper motor requires the winding currents to be 90° out-of- phase so that the stepper ...

Here's a simple algorithm that uses conventional microcontroller blocks to control commercially available H-bridges to properly commutate a bipolar stepper motor through a microstepping profile.

The affordability and reliability of step motors—“steppers”—has made this technology highly popular among machine builders in many industries, ranging from electronics to aircraft controls to CNC ...

Motion Control Products Ltd is launching the DMD556 next-generation digital microstepping drive that is claimed to benefit from unprecedented audio noise reduction (by 70%) and smooth low-speed ...