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    Servo control is a method of controlling many types of RC/hobbyist servos by sending the servo a PWM (pulse-width modulation) signal, a series of repeating...
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    Servos (also RC servos) are small, cheap, mass-produced servomotors or other actuators used for radio control and small-scale robotics.[citation needed]...
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    Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, are miniature vehicles (cars, vans, buses, buggies, etc.) controlled via radio. Nitro powered models use...
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  • Servomechanism (redirect from Servo Motor)
    In mechanical and control engineering, a servomechanism (also called servo system, or simply servo) is a control system for the position and its time derivatives...
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  • Look up servo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Servo may refer to: Servomechanism, or servo, a device used to provide control of a desired operation...
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    hand-held radio transmitter. The transmitter continuously communicates with a receiver within the craft that sends signals to servomechanisms (servos) which...
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    2016-01-29. Achim Walther. "Servo Switch". "Remote Control Circuit Through RF Without Microcontroller". January 3, 2011. "Radio control transmitter encoder circuit...
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    Servomotor (redirect from Servo motors)
    A servomotor (or servo motor or simply servo) is a rotary or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity,...
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    back. The animals are controlled by the use of radio signals. The electrodes do not move the animal directly, as if controlling a robot; rather, they...
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    means of small servo motors, commonly known as servos. A solid-state gyroscope sensor is typically used on the tail rotor (yaw) control to counter wind-...
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    A radio-controlled boat is a boat or ship model controlled remotely with radio control equipment. Electric sport boats are the most common type of boat...
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  • electronic speed controls are used in electrically powered radio controlled models. Full-size electric vehicles also have systems to control the speed of...
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    A radio-controlled glider is a type of radio-controlled aircraft that normally does not have any form of propulsion. They are able to sustain continuous...
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    MD-80, use a servo tab within the elevator surface to aerodynamically move the main surface into position. The direction of travel of the control tab will...
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    method used to control a radio-controlled vehicle from the driver or pilot's viewpoint. Most commonly it is used to pilot a radio-controlled aircraft or...
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  • Battery eliminator circuit (category Radio control)
    cuts the power to the 'drive' motor in order to provide the 'steering' servo(s) with enough power to be able to bring the model safely back to the operator...
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    Feedback (redirect from Fb control)
    McFarlane Gray. Joseph Farcot coined the word servo in 1873 to describe steam-powered steering systems. Hydraulic servos were later used to position guns. Elmer...
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  • manually controlled loop antenna. Control was via an electric servo motor. Versions 1 - 4 had manual control either via cable linkage or direct control via...
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  • needed] was a Japanese manufacturer of popular radio control devices including transmitters, receivers, servos, electronics, programmable robots and model...
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    the stabilators only for pitch and roll axis movements. Servo-electrically operated control surfaces were first tested in the 1930s on the Soviet Tupolev...
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    Negative feedback (redirect from Servo loop)
    chemistry and economics. General negative feedback systems are studied in control systems engineering. Negative feedback loops also play an integral role...
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    signals of less than 20 kHz, radio frequency (RF) amplifiers amplify frequencies in the range between 20 kHz and 300 GHz, and servo amplifiers and instrumentation...
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  • made by Russia; Japanese battery by Murata Manufacturing; South Korean servo drive made by Dynamixel (Robotis). The Banderol is air launched with the...
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  • Pulse-position modulation (category Quantized radio modulation modes)
    aircraft require parts that are as lightweight as possible). Servos made for model radio control include some of the electronics required to convert the pulse...
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    position matching that commanded. A simple low-cost servo of this type is widely used for radio-controlled models. A recent, and novel, form of ultra-lightweight...
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  • vibration on impact. Escapement (radio control), an obsolete precursor to the servo, used for the control of a radio-controlled model Escapement (film), a 1958...
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  • out as a way to keep model sail boats on course. Before the advent of radio control, model yacht racing (started before WW1) was typically contested on...
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    command wire. Later, bombs could be detonated by radio control. Initially, simple servos from radio-controlled aircraft were used to close the electrical circuit...
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    to be controlled without the use of additional lines. Standard servos can then be used in the model. From 2013, in the USA, the radio control "over the...
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  • manipulate all axis of control. Older model helicopters use three independent servos to manipulate the swashplate. The elevator servo is used to tilt the...
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