A manager's responsibility is to get her team to achieve the organization's goals. The four functions of a manager are to plan, organize, lead and control her team. Feedback control is a process that ...

Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) create novel sensorimotor pathways for action. Much as the sensorimotor apparatus shapes natural motor control, the BMI pathway characteristics may also influence ...

The motor system can be considered at three levels: motor behaviour, limb mechanics and neural control. Although our understanding at each level continues to grow, linking these levels into a cohesive ...

Robert L. Clark of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering explains. Just for the record, feedback is actually the mechanism used to control almost every electronic device manufactured.

Among the seemingly endless variety of machinery that might be listed under the heading automatic control, feedback mechanisms stand out as a distinct group because, although differing widely in ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. More than 80% of the motors bought each year continue to be low-cost single-phase ac motors. Because these motors are not very efficient when ...