Faster access than browser!
64 relations: Aircraft, Amplidyne, Amplifier, Andrew Betts Brown, Anti-aircraft warfare, Autofocus, Bang–bang control, Constant-speed propeller, Control engineering, Control theory, Cruise control, Elisha Gray, Encoder, Feedback, Fire-control system, Fly-by-wire, Fractional-horsepower motor, Gain (electronics), Gas turbine, Gear, Governor (device), Hard disk drive, HathiTrust, HMS Champion (1915), Hydraulics, James Watt, John McFarlane Gray, Joseph Farcot, McGraw-Hill Education, MOSFET, Motion control, Navigation, Negative feedback, Numerical control, PID controller, Pneumatics, Potentiometer, Power window, Pulse-width modulation, Qian Xuesen, Radio-controlled model, Reversing gear, Robotics, Rotary encoder, Servo (radio control), Servo bandwidth, Servo control, Servomotor, SS Great Eastern, Steam engine, ..., Steering engine, Stepper motor, Synchro, Telautograph, Temperature coefficient, Thyristor, Transducer, Transistor, UNISERVO, UNIVAC I, Vacuum tube, Water wheel, Windmill fantail, World War II. Expand index (14 more) »
Aircraft
An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
New!!: Servomechanism and Aircraft · See more »
Amplidyne
An amplidyne is an electromechanical amplifier invented prior to World War II by Ernst Alexanderson.
New!!: Servomechanism and Amplidyne · See more »
Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the power of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
New!!: Servomechanism and Amplifier · See more »
Andrew Betts Brown
Andrew Betts Brown MICE MINA (1841–1906) was a Scottish engineer and inventor.
New!!: Servomechanism and Andrew Betts Brown · See more »
Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action."AAP-6 They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons).
New!!: Servomechanism and Anti-aircraft warfare · See more »
Autofocus
An autofocus (or AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area.
New!!: Servomechanism and Autofocus · See more »
Bang–bang control
In control theory, a bang–bang controller (2 step or on–off controller), also known as a hysteresis controller, is a feedback controller that switches abruptly between two states.
New!!: Servomechanism and Bang–bang control · See more »
Constant-speed propeller
A constant-speed propeller is a variable-pitch aircraft propeller that automatically changes its blade pitch in order to maintain a chosen rotational speed.
New!!: Servomechanism and Constant-speed propeller · See more »
Control engineering
Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that applies automatic control theory to design systems with desired behaviors in control environments.
New!!: Servomechanism and Control engineering · See more »
Control theory
Control theory in control systems engineering deals with the control of continuously operating dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines.
New!!: Servomechanism and Control theory · See more »
Cruise control
Cruise control (sometimes known as speed control or autocruise, or tempomat in some countries) is a system that automatically controls the speed of a motor vehicle.
New!!: Servomechanism and Cruise control · See more »
Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company.
New!!: Servomechanism and Elisha Gray · See more »
Encoder
An encoder is a device, circuit, transducer, software program, algorithm or person that converts information from one format or code to another, for the purposes of standardization, speed or compression.
New!!: Servomechanism and Encoder · See more »
Feedback
Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.
New!!: Servomechanism and Feedback · See more »
Fire-control system
A fire-control system is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director, and radar, which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target.
New!!: Servomechanism and Fire-control system · See more »
Fly-by-wire
Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface.
New!!: Servomechanism and Fly-by-wire · See more »
Fractional-horsepower motor
A fractional-horsepower motor (FHP) is an electric motor with a rated output power of 746.9 or 746 Watts or less.
New!!: Servomechanism and Fractional-horsepower motor · See more »
Gain (electronics)
In electronics, gain is a measure of the ability of a two-port circuit (often an amplifier) to increase the power or amplitude of a signal from the input to the output port by adding energy converted from some power supply to the signal.
New!!: Servomechanism and Gain (electronics) · See more »
Gas turbine
A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of continuous combustion, internal combustion engine.
New!!: Servomechanism and Gas turbine · See more »
Gear
A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut like teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque.
New!!: Servomechanism and Gear · See more »
Governor (device)
A governor, or speed limiter or controller, is a device used to measure and regulate the speed of a machine, such as an engine.
New!!: Servomechanism and Governor (device) · See more »
Hard disk drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk is an electromechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.
New!!: Servomechanism and Hard disk drive · See more »
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
New!!: Servomechanism and HathiTrust · See more »
HMS Champion (1915)
HMS Champion was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War I. She was part of the Calliope group of the C class.
New!!: Servomechanism and HMS Champion (1915) · See more »
Hydraulics
Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.
New!!: Servomechanism and Hydraulics · See more »
James Watt
James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
New!!: Servomechanism and James Watt · See more »
John McFarlane Gray
John McFarlane Gray (or J. Macfarlane Gray; 7 April 1831 – 14 January 1908) was a Scottish engineer who invented a portable steam riveting machine and a steam steering mechanism for Isambard Kingdom Brunel's famous SS Great Eastern.
New!!: Servomechanism and John McFarlane Gray · See more »
Joseph Farcot
Jean Joseph Léon Farcot (23 June 1824 – 19 March 1908) was a French engineer and industrialist whose factories employed up to 700 workers.
New!!: Servomechanism and Joseph Farcot · See more »
McGraw-Hill Education
McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) is a learning science company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that provides customized educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
New!!: Servomechanism and McGraw-Hill Education · See more »
MOSFET
MOSFET showing gate (G), body (B), source (S) and drain (D) terminals. The gate is separated from the body by an insulating layer (white). surface-mount packages. Operating as switches, each of these components can sustain a blocking voltage of 120nbspvolts in the ''off'' state, and can conduct a continuous current of 30 amperes in the ''on'' state, dissipating up to about 100 watts and controlling a load of over 2000 watts. A matchstick is pictured for scale. A cross-section through an nMOSFET when the gate voltage ''V''GS is below the threshold for making a conductive channel; there is little or no conduction between the terminals drain and source; the switch is off. When the gate is more positive, it attracts electrons, inducing an ''n''-type conductive channel in the substrate below the oxide, which allows electrons to flow between the ''n''-doped terminals; the switch is on. Simulation result for formation of inversion channel (electron density) and attainment of threshold voltage (IV) in a nanowire MOSFET. Note that the threshold voltage for this device lies around 0.45 V The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon.
New!!: Servomechanism and MOSFET · See more »
Motion control
Motion control is a sub-field of automation, encompassing the systems or sub-systems involved in moving parts of machines in a controlled manner.
New!!: Servomechanism and Motion control · See more »
Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.
New!!: Servomechanism and Navigation · See more »
Negative feedback
Negative feedback (or balancing feedback) occurs when some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to reduce the fluctuations in the output, whether caused by changes in the input or by other disturbances.
New!!: Servomechanism and Negative feedback · See more »
Numerical control
Computer numerical control (CNC) is the automation of machine tools by means of computers executing pre-programmed sequences of machine control commands.
New!!: Servomechanism and Numerical control · See more »
PID controller
A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller or three term controller) is a control loop feedback mechanism widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other applications requiring continuously modulated control.
New!!: Servomechanism and PID controller · See more »
Pneumatics
Pneumatics (From Greek: πνεύμα) is a branch of engineering that makes use of gas or pressurized air.
New!!: Servomechanism and Pneumatics · See more »
Potentiometer
A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider.
New!!: Servomechanism and Potentiometer · See more »
Power window
Power windows or electric windows are automobile windows which can be raised and lowered by pressing a button or switch, as opposed to using a crank handle.
New!!: Servomechanism and Power window · See more »
Pulse-width modulation
Pulse-width modulation (PWM), or pulse-duration modulation (PDM), is a modulation technique used to encode a message into a pulsing signal.
New!!: Servomechanism and Pulse-width modulation · See more »
Qian Xuesen
Qian Xuesen, or Hsue-Shen Tsien (11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a prominent Chinese aerodynamicist and cyberneticist who contributed to rocket science and established engineering cybernetics.
New!!: Servomechanism and Qian Xuesen · See more »
Radio-controlled model
A radio-controlled model (or RC model) is a model that is steerable with the use of radio control.
New!!: Servomechanism and Radio-controlled model · See more »
Reversing gear
On a steam locomotive, the reversing gear is used to control the direction of travel of the locomotive.
New!!: Servomechanism and Reversing gear · See more »
Robotics
Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science, and others.
New!!: Servomechanism and Robotics · See more »
Rotary encoder
A rotary encoder, also called a shaft encoder, is an electro-mechanical device that converts the angular position or motion of a shaft or axle to analog or digital output signals.
New!!: Servomechanism and Rotary encoder · See more »
Servo (radio control)
Servos (also RC servos) are small, cheap, mass-produced servomotors or other actuators used for radio control and small-scale robotics.
New!!: Servomechanism and Servo (radio control) · See more »
Servo bandwidth
Servo bandwidth can be defined as the maximum trackable sinusoidal frequency of amplitude A, with tracking achieved at or before 10% of A amplitude is reached.
New!!: Servomechanism and Servo bandwidth · See more »
Servo control
Servo control is achieved by sending a servo a PWM (pulse-width modulation) signal, a series of repeating pulses of variable width where either the width of the pulse (most common modern hobby servos) or the duty cycle of a pulse train (less common today) determines the position to be achieved by the servo.
New!!: Servomechanism and Servo control · See more »
Servomotor
A servomotor is a rotary actuator or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity and acceleration.
New!!: Servomechanism and Servomotor · See more »
SS Great Eastern
SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by J. Scott Russell & Co.
New!!: Servomechanism and SS Great Eastern · See more »
Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
New!!: Servomechanism and Steam engine · See more »
Steering engine
A steering engine is a power steering device for ships.
New!!: Servomechanism and Steering engine · See more »
Stepper motor
A stepper motor or step motor or stepping motor is a brushless DC electric motor that divides a full rotation into a number of equal steps.
New!!: Servomechanism and Stepper motor · See more »
Synchro
A synchro (also known as Selsyn and by other brand names) is, in effect, a transformer whose primary-to-secondary coupling may be varied by physically changing the relative orientation of the two windings.
New!!: Servomechanism and Synchro · See more »
Telautograph
The telautograph, an analog precursor to the modern fax machine, transmits electrical impulses recorded by potentiometers at the sending station to servomechanisms attached to a pen at the receiving station, thus reproducing at the receiving station a drawing or signature made by the sender.
New!!: Servomechanism and Telautograph · See more »
Temperature coefficient
A temperature coefficient describes the relative change of a physical property that is associated with a given change in temperature.
New!!: Servomechanism and Temperature coefficient · See more »
Thyristor
A thyristor is a solid-state semiconductor device with four layers of alternating P- and N-type materials.
New!!: Servomechanism and Thyristor · See more »
Transducer
A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another.
New!!: Servomechanism and Transducer · See more »
Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power.
New!!: Servomechanism and Transistor · See more »
UNISERVO
The UNISERVO tape drive was the primary I/O device on the UNIVAC I computer.
New!!: Servomechanism and UNISERVO · See more »
UNIVAC I
The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States.
New!!: Servomechanism and UNIVAC I · See more »
Vacuum tube
In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions) is a device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated container.
New!!: Servomechanism and Vacuum tube · See more »
Water wheel
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.
New!!: Servomechanism and Water wheel · See more »
Windmill fantail
A fantail is a small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, and which turns the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.
New!!: Servomechanism and Windmill fantail · See more »
World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
New!!: Servomechanism and World War II · See more »
Redirects here:
Error signal, RC Servo, RC servo, Rc servos, Servo Motor, Servo system, Servo-mechanism, Servos, Telemotor.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servomechanism
