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Motion Control
Metis has been working in motion control for many years. Pritchard designed and Metis manufactured a micro-stepping stepping motor drive that uniquely could be tuned to compensate the non-linear characteristics of the motor magnetic structure. The very unruly, raucous behavior of stepping motors at resonance was tamed to being virtually unnoticeable. This technology gave the stepping motor a greater region of operation as defined by resolution on one end and ultimate speed on the other.
These very smoothly running drives and motors provided the basis for computer controlled systems. The computer control of these stepping motor drives demanded a new special purpose computer architecture. Although independently developed, this architecture is now known as Harvard. Unlike most computers, the Harvard structure separates program memory from data memory and provides for more speed. As an additional speed enhancement, the Metis computer had a separate register for carry bits. The two features gave the motion control computer the power to evaluate polynomial equations in less time than the personal computers could execute a single instruction.
Pritchard has been awarded 11 U.S. Patents for his work in motion control in the areas of motor driver circuitry, computer architecture, and animation stand control.
Contact
Us:
Located Just Outside of Maryland, Virginia & Pennsylvania at
290 Pritchard Lane, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411;
Telephone: 304-258-4799 Fax: 304-258-4763
Eric Pritchard and everyone at Metis respects and honors the intellectual property of our clients and potential clients. Unfortunately, this limits our ability to provide examples and information of prior experience, particularly on more recent projects.
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