Robotics: choosing the components
A robot — industrial arm, cobot or autonomous mobile robot — divides into ten blocks: control and compute, motor drive, position and environment sensing, power and battery, the drive power stage, isolation, connectivity, HMI, and the connectors and passives holding it together. This guide shows which J.P. Electronics manufacturer lines serve each block.
Which of our lines serves each block?
| Block | Our lines | What decides the choice |
|---|---|---|
| Control & compute | Microchip NXP Geehy | Real-time motion control, safety partitioning, ROS-capable processing |
| Motor & motion drive | Allegro MicroSystems Novosense Geehy | Joint, wheel and gripper drives; BLDC, stepper and servo control |
| Position & motion sensing | Allegro MicroSystems Same Sky Novosense | Encoders, angle sensing, current feedback for force control |
| Proximity & environment sensing | Same Sky Everlight Brightek | Ultrasonic ranging, optical and ambient sensing |
| Power & battery | Chipown Bel Nanopower VinaTech | Battery conversion, standby power, ride-through during peaks |
| Power stage | Taiwan Semiconductor Good Ark Navitas | Drive-stage switching from small actuators to high-power joints |
| Isolation | Novosense Cosmo Everlight | Isolating control from drive power and external I/O |
| Connectivity & positioning | Quectel Allystar | Wireless links for AMRs, GNSS for outdoor robots |
| HMI & indicators | AV Display Yeebo Brightek | Status displays, teach pendants, light signalling |
| Connectors, timing & passives | KLS CLAF Hosonic RDM Technology CCTC | Flex-tolerant interconnect, timing, decoupling |
What separates robot motor control from ordinary motor drive?
Precision and feedback. A robot joint needs position feedback good enough for repeatable moves and current feedback fast enough for force control, so the encoder, the angle sensor and the current sensing are chosen with the control loop, not after it.
What matters most in AMR power design?
Battery discipline. Everything runs from one battery, so conversion efficiency, standby drain and graceful behaviour under peak load decide runtime. Supercapacitor ride-through keeps the compute alive through motor surges, and an ultra-low-power PMIC stops the robot draining itself while parked.
Working on a robotics design?
Email your specification and we will map it to the right families across our lines, with samples for the ones you shortlist.