Bearing Selection for High-Cycle Robot Joint Applications
Control algorithms mask bearing wear until failure strikes suddenly.
Liesel Hartmann
Staff Writer, Robot Compute & Safety
Liesel worked as an embedded systems developer in the automotive sector for nearly a decade, giving her a sharp eye for the tradeoffs between onboard compute architectures and real-time safety requirements. She has reported on functional safety standards since 2014.
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