The Secret Behind Running a Fancy Remote Controlled Toy Car

The secret behind running a fancy remote controlled toy car and that of a commercial airliner may be one in the same. While it may seem confusing at first, itaEUR(TM)s important to know that both have the basic mechanics of servo controllers in them. This is not a new phenomenon, having been in existence for nearly a century. However, before getting into the history, letaEUR(TM)s understand servomechanism. A servo control motor is an electromechanical device which consists of an electrical input that helps identify the position of the armature of a motor. Servo mechanism simply speaks of a system where a feedback or error correcting signal helps in the managing of speed, mechanical positions and other relevant parameters. The working mechanism of a servo amplifier is extremely simple. The control circuits that exist inside the potentiometer and the servo are linked with the output device, known as the shaft. It is the potentiometer which assists in the regulation of the angle of the shaft with that help of coded signals that are received with the help of the control circuit. Now, letâEUR(TM)s learn more about the origin and discovery of these motors. The steam engine discovered by James Watt, is the first known type of servo motor. However, windmill fantail, discovered before the steam engine, also used automatic control. It is not technically listed in the same category, as it did not have an amplifier or gain, hence, may not be counted as servomechanism. In fact, in 1866, an older variation of brushless AC servo motor was used for steering ship engines and to position rudder of large ships as per the shipâEUR(TM)s wheels, as well as in Elisha Gray's Telautograph. The actual characteristics of the modern servomechanism were only seen in the steam engines. They contained an input, an output, an error signal and a means for amplifying the error signal used for negative feedback to drive the error towards zero. The engine utilized the Ragonnet power reverse mechanism which was a servo based amplifier for linear motion. Taking this mechanism further during World War II, it was used for the development of fire controllers to adjust the firing angle and the air-fuel ratio. Soon, the Royal Navy used servomechanism for controlling guns and loading gun directors. They were also used for creating thyristor devices and power transistors. Currently, its main application is to control and direct position, speed and tracking. In fact, today servo control systems are employed in the field of IT hardware during the early developmental stages, making it one of the most essential systems. Source: GOARTICLES