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Motor control in medicine: improving precision is putting robotic systems to work in the lab, in...

By Cravotta, Robert
Publication: EDN Asia
Date: Friday, July 1 2005

Embedded motor control for robotic applications is changing medical research and procedures, from the drug-development lab to the radiology department to the operating room.

Robotics has profoundly affected the efficiency of drug-discovery research through consistent, reliable, and repeatable control of high-throughput liquid-handling systems, detection readers, incubators, and arrays or carousels of tubes or phials. A linear motor, which is effectively an "uncurled" electrical motor that has a flat stator, produces a linear motion instead of a rotation, and is useful

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