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Benefits of Using The S-Curve Acceleration Component

The S-curve acceleration component provides benefits for electrical motors by decreasing the slope of acceleration, current, and torque over time compared to constant acceleration. This reduction of high frequency components reduces the excitation of resonant nodes in structures and prevents instantaneous changes in force, torque, and motor current. The S-curve acts as a low-pass filter to smooth motion profiles.

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Benefits of Using The S-Curve Acceleration Component

The S-curve acceleration component provides benefits for electrical motors by decreasing the slope of acceleration, current, and torque over time compared to constant acceleration. This reduction of high frequency components reduces the excitation of resonant nodes in structures and prevents instantaneous changes in force, torque, and motor current. The S-curve acts as a low-pass filter to smooth motion profiles.

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Benefits of using the S-curve acceleration component

In an electrical motor, force or torque is proportional to the current applied to its windings:

F/T = KT . I

Also, according to the Newton’s law: F = m ⋅ a or T = J ⋅ α

Motions with constant acceleration (no S-curve) request instantaneous changes in acceleration
and therefore force/torque and motor current.

The S-curve acceleration component has the effect of decreasing the slope of the acceleration,
current or torque versus time profiles:

S-curve component no S-curve component

Velocity vs Time

Acceleration vs Time
Force/Torque vs Time
Current vs Time

Also, S-curve could be seen as a low pass filter eliminating high frequency components.

Since no structure is perfectly still, all structure have some high frequency resonances, which
will be excited if the trajectory contains energy at that frequency. S-curve acceleration, by
reducing the high-frequency components of the trajectory, reduces the excitation of these
resonant nodes.
Frequency Diagrams

With S-curve component Without S-curve component

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