Motion Controls Design

Look to D3 Engineering for DSP expertise in developing motion control solutions. Our Controls Group can supply your company with a complete motion control solution – custom designed for your application – or we can supplement your design team with additional software and hardware resources.

Unique Controls Design Service

Unlike hiring a contract employee or consultant, D3’s team of experts can assist you with DSP hardware, software and algorithms over a wide range of control applications including servo, power, stepper, MEMS, linear encoders, thermal controls and more. Our numerous motion control algorithms and reference designs can get you to a working prototype in record time.

Our Motion Control group has years of experience designing industrial control solutions. Our experts have assisted customers with projects ranging from low-cost consumer products like inkjet printers and automotive applications to high-end industrial control, precision optical alignment, and vision control systems. Our expertise includes:

Stepper Motors

Microstepping Experience
Motor Selection (Load Analysis)
Combined Stepper Motor and Drive system
Low-cost multi-axis reference designs

Power / Other Control

Automotive Motor Controls
Power Control Experience
MEMS device control
Closed Loop Temperature and High Voltage control
Closed loop lighting control
Power Factor Correction
Paper movement and positioning
Frequency response of system loads
CAN / Automotive Bus protocols

Servo Motion Control

DC Brushed and Brushless Servo Design
Kalman Filtering
Adaptive Motion Algorithms
AC Induction motion control Design
Park/Clark Transforms
Sensorless Feedback Systems
Closed Loop high performance
Linear and Rotary Motion Control

Custom Designed Solutions

We have developed custom solutions for clients that include BLDC servo systems, AC induction, and stepper motors. We have had notable success in applications that combine our expertise in Image Processing and Motion Control to create Machine Vision and Medical products.

Kruse Control

If you need positional accuracy beyond microstepping and high-cost servo drives, Kruse Control, our patented high-precision motion control platform, can be an effective solution. D3 has teamed up with the inventor to provide a DSP-based platform for high performance systems. Kruse Control gives you significant improvements in the speed/torque curve, extremely fine position control, and a cost savings over servo motion control systems. More Info

Reference Designs

D3 has developed reference designs for all Texas Instruments C2000 devices (24x, 24xx, & 28xx). By leveraging our existing prototypes, we can quickly help your team implement a working solution. We can also assist your design team in programming peripherals, optimizing code, or converting simulations (Matlab, etc) into real-time systems.

Texas Instruments C2000 Family Expertise

A typical D3 solution uses a DSP from Texas Instruments C2000 family. We chose Texas Instruments because they offer a full rage of devices from low-cost to high-performance, and their on-chip peripherals are designed specifically for motion control. Their high speed cores allow D3 to develop the sophisticated mathematics that can both lower the cost of a system and increase performance and features.

Contact D3 Engineering to provide you with the DSP expertise your company needs.