Servo Drives 101!
Servo Drives 101 Free Drives Contest Results
The Servo Drives 101 Free Drives Contest has concluded and we have a lot of winners! From September 15 to December 1, 2007 we made over 200 servo drives available to give away for free. 158 drives were awarded for 27 projects at 19 schools for a total of over $40,000.00 in donations! This is by far the largest amount of donations for a single event for ADVANCED Motion Controls and we are very proud of this achievment. Please review the winner's list below. Winners are sorted by the university name.
What is 'Servo Drives 101' - Free Drives Design Contest
(From the original anouncement)
Now that you're back in school, it's time to get ready for the real world. Let's put all that theory to practice! ADVANCED Motion Controls wants to help you with your motion control project.
You may have already taken the basics such as Physics and Mathematics and moved on to Dynamics and Controls, but have you actually built anything? Have you chosen a Capstone Project yet? Is there a requirement to prove out results from coursework? Is there graduate research that needs to be conducted? Are lab equipment desired that will be the basis for continued educational purposes? Whatever the need, let us know about it. Why? Because now's your chance to combine all that you've learned and spend no money on servo drive hardware. We're opening up a portion of our supplies to give stuff away!
After three years of steadily gaining popularity through word of mouth referrals, and with tremendous success, we at ADVANCED Motion Controls are now actively promoting our University Outreach program. This remarkable program has already enabled hundreds of students and professors, from High Schools to Universities, to acquire servo drives at significantly reduced pricing or absolutely free. The 'Servo Drives 101' - Free Drives Design Contest allows you the freedom to choose from a list of available products as they might fit your needs and reward you for ingenuity and imagination. The challenge is to come up with a project or describe a need that could utilize the listed ADVANCED Motion Controls servo drives. Winners will then be given servo drives to complete the named project. It's that simple.
| Educational Institution |
Location |
Department |
Main Contact |
Project Name / Description |
AMC products (quantity) |
Date |
| Clarkson University |
Potsdam, NY |
MAE Department |
Mr. Kevin Fite |
Electrically-powered Active Knee Prosthesis for Transfemoral Amputees
Development and control of an actively powered lower-extremity prosthesis. |
Z12A8 (1) |
Oct. 18, 2007 |
| Colorado State University |
Pueblo, CO |
Engineering |
Nebojsa Jaksic |
Laboratory equipment for Mechatronics |
BD30A8 (15), DR101EE15A40NAC (15), 25A20-INV (15) |
Nov. 8, 2007 |
| Cuesta College |
San Luis Obispo, CA |
Engineering & Technology |
Mr. Jeremy Edmonds |
Industrial Electronics Motor Control Lab
Compact and portable lab kits contain a motor, servo drive & power supply to introduce students to feedback, servo control and optomized tuning. |
ZDR150EE12A8LDC (10)
MC1XZDR (10) |
Oct. 9, 2007 |
| Florida Institute of Technology |
Melbourne, FL |
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
Hector Gutierrez |
Sub micro-meter control of a 6 degree of freedom machine. 3 translational axes (200mm x 200mm x 1mm) and 3 rotational axes. |
25A20-INV (6) |
Nov. 19, 2007 |
| Florida Institute of Technology |
Melbourne, FL |
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
Hector Gutierrez |
Modeling Slosh Dynamics in Cryogenic Fuel Tanks. Develop an experiment to study low-gravity fluid sloshing. The model is intended to improve spacecraft performance when large motions lead to liquid propellant slosh within the fuel tanks. To mimic low-gravity conditions, preparations for a multi-DOF experiment in NASA's zero-gravity aircraft are currently under way, and will take place in the summer of 2008. |
B60A40AC (2), B25A20AC (1), BE25A20AC-INV (1) |
Nov. 13, 2007 |
| Florida State University |
Tallahassee, FL |
Meteorology |
Dr. Peter Ray |
Mobile Doppler Research Facility
A state-of-the-art mobile Doppler research facility with the special capacity of withstanding the most severe hurricane force winds. Drive is a replacement for an existing application. |
B30A40 (1) |
Oct. 11, 2007 |
| Johns Hopkins University |
Baltimore, MD |
Mechanical Engineering |
David Grow |
Haptic Simulation of Elbow Joint Spasticity. We are developing a simulator that replicates spastic arm dynamics for clinical training of physical therapists and neurologists. |
25A20 (2) |
Nov. 26, 2007 |
| McMaster University |
Hamilton, ON Canada |
Mechanical Engineering |
David Leferink |
Proof of concept design for drilling small holes (200-500 µm) in glass using a technique similar to Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM). |
DR101EE15A40NAC (1) |
Nov. 14, 2007 |
| Michigan State University |
East Lansing, MI |
Mechanical Engineering |
Mr. Louis Flynn |
Simple Bipedal Walker
A simple bipedal walker to better understand the role of the torso in simple inverted pendulum walking. The servo drives will position the hip joint and leg extension. |
ZDR150EE12A8LDC (4)
MC1XZDR (4) |
Oct 18, 2007 |
| Michigan Technological University |
Houghton, MI |
Mechanical Engineering |
Justin Keske |
Active control of exhaust system on a snowmobile engine to maintain quiet engine noise at all speeds. |
DR101EE15A40NAC (1), DR101EE30A40NAC (1) |
Nov. 9, 2007 |
| Purdue University |
Hammond, IN |
Electrical Computer Engineering Technology |
Mr. Joe Cody |
Self-Navigating Tracked Vehicle
The vehicle will self-navigate a set of user-defined coordinates utilizing a digital compass and encoder feedback for position/displacement and heading information. The ADVANCED Motion Controls servo drives will provide the control necessary for precise motion. |
Z12A8 (2) |
Oct. 17, 2007 |
| Texas A&M |
College Station, TX |
Mechanical Engineering |
Ali Sadighi |
Development of linear motor to run in two phase and three phase configurations. |
30A20AC (1) |
Nov. 13, 2007 |
| University of Colorado |
Boulder, CO |
Aerospace Engineering |
Michael Krieg |
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle competition sponsored by AUVSI. A new method of generating control forces will emulate the way a squid propels itself by ingesting low momentum fluid and ejecting it at a much higher momentum. |
BE15A 8 (1) |
Nov. 2, 2007 |
| University of Maryland |
College Park, MD |
Mechanical Engineering |
Kevin Lister |
Soft Tissue Characterization during Monopolar Electrocautery Procedures |
25A8 (2) |
Oct. 30, 2007 |
| University of Maryland |
College Park, MD |
Mechanical Engineering |
Xingyong Song |
Design, develop and evaluate a haptic feedback interface which will serve both as a master to control a robot arm and a modular laparoscopic tool as well as provide force feedback to the user during manipulation tasks. |
B25A20 (1), 30A8I-INV (3), 25A20-INV (3) |
Nov. 7, 2007 |
| University of Maryland |
College Park, MD |
Mechanical Engineering |
Rebecca Kokes |
Haptic modeling
Characterization of needle force and tissue deformation of a needle passing through breast tissue to calibrate and correctly model a 6-DOF MRI-Compatible haptic robot for biopsy and radiofrequency ablation of breast tumors. |
25A20-INV (2) |
Nov. 6, 2007 |
| University of Michigan |
Ann Arbor, MI |
Mechanical Engineering |
Shorya Awtar |
Design, build and test two-wheeled balancing robots as part of a Mechatronic Systems Design class. |
30A8I-INV (8) |
Nov. 8, 2007 |
| University of Moncton |
Moncton, NB Canada |
Electrical Engineering |
Azeddine Kaddouri |
Solar Vehicle to compete in the American Solar Challenge |
S60A40AC (1) |
Oct. 22, 2007 |
| University of Moncton |
Moncton, NB Canada |
Electrical Engineering |
Jamel Ghouili |
2 fuel cell powered electric vehicles. 2 DR101EE15A40NAC's will be used on each vehicle for the drivetrain. The other drives will be used as laboratory equipment to demonstrate open and closed loop control and space vector modulation. |
DR101EE30A40NAC (3), DR101EE15A40NAC (5) |
Nov. 8, 2007 |
| University of Moncton |
Moncton, NB Canada |
Electrical Engineering |
Mohsen Ghribi |
Develop advanced control systems for induction and permament magnet synchronous motors based on fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. Develop ways to save energy in induction motors. |
BD30A8 (3), DR100EE15A40NAC (1) |
Dec. 1, 2007 |
| University of Moncton |
Moncton, NB Canada |
Electrical Engineering |
Mohsen Ghribi |
Develop an autonomous mobile robot connected remotely via Internet and LAN. The robot will be able to send pictures, video and sound; detect and avoid obstacles; record the path of movement; and extend its time of operation by minimizing energy usage. |
Z6A6DDC (2) |
Nov. 8, 2007 |
| University of Moncton |
Moncton, NB Canada |
Electrical Engineering |
Mohsen Ghribi |
Laboratory equipment for motion control and control systems. |
25A20-INV (6) |
Nov. 8, 2007 |
| University of Pennsylvania |
Philadelphia, PA |
Mechanical Engineering |
Joseph Romano |
Air-Wand. A novel haptic device designed to allow users to feel force feedback in virtual reality simulations. The user will hold the wand tool in their hand and force feedback will be generated by high pressure air jets that can be ejected in several different directions. |
25A8-CUR (6) |
Nov. 19, 2007 |
| University of Saskatchewan |
Saskatoon, SK Canada |
Mechanical Engineering |
Doug Bitner |
Class project in a mechanical engineering graduate digital control systems course as part of an electro-mechanical setup to test digital control algorithms in a Hardware-in-the-loop configuration. |
25A8-CUR (2) |
Nov. 12, 2007 |
| University of Tennessee |
Knoxville, TN |
Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering |
Dongjun Lee |
Haptic research. Investigation of stability/perception issues of teleoperated robots communicating via the Internet. |
DR101EE15A40NAC (1), DR101EE30A40NAC (1) |
Nov. 13, 2007 |
| Washington State University |
Richland, WA |
Materials and Mechanical Engineering |
He Huang |
Vision control of micro-manipulator for medical & biological applications. |
Z6A6 (1), Z6A6DDC (4), Z12A8 (1) |
Oct. 22, 2007 |
| Washington State University |
Richland, WA |
Mechanical and Materials Engineering |
Mr. Jen-Yuan (James) Chang |
Mechatronics Lab
The lab will serve as the essential element for students to build their own mechatronic devices. |
ZDR150EE12A8LDC (5), MC1XZDR (5), BD30A8 (10), BE25A20AC (3) |
Oct. 22, 2007 |
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