Technical Consulting

TECHNICAL CONSULTING

comprehensive systems solutions
to your hard to solve technical problems

Please call to discuss your application and a customized solution.

modeling, simulation and optimization

Customized Simulation Models and Design Tools - help you rapidly iterate to an optimum design
Comprehensive electromechanical product models - seamlessly integrate motor electrodynamics, digital control,
sensor and actuator dynamics, electrical dynamics and complex mechanical dynamics.
Fully parametric, open architecture models provide user extensibility
GUI models teach the physical principles of your system's operation
Explore product performance enhancements, robustness and your own what-if scenarios and algorithms
Automated techniques - optimize system parameters

product development

Algorithm development and system optimization
Prototype development
Augment design team capabilities

technology assessment

Independent design review and analysis
Competitive product analysis
Invention and patent assessment and interpretation

Areas of expertise

Mechatronics	Motion Control	Digital Servo Systems
Electromechanical Systems	Mechanisms	Adaptive Control
Simulation of Dynamic Systems	Active Shock and Vibration Control	System Identification
Computer Peripherals	Sensors and Actuators	Active Damping
Magnetic Disk Drives	Mechanical Resonances	Vector and Field Oriented Control
Optical Disc Drives	Dynamic Systems Simulation	DC and AC Motor Control
Tape Drives and Printers	Dynamometer Control	Stepper Motor Control
Motor Drive Electronics	Analog Circuitry	Control Algorithms

About dr. Sidman

Dr. Sidman is an independent engineering consultant with over 35 years of practical industrial design experience. He is an expert in digital servo systems and disk drive head positioning servo control, with roles spanning product design, advanced development and applied research. He is the named inventor on 18 U.S. patents, author of many technical papers and received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986. As Digital Equipment Corporation's top servo systems guru, Dr. Sidman was responsible for developing novel servomechanical technology for disk drives and headed the Storage Division's Servo-Mechanical Advanced Development Group. Dr. Sidman is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ASME Past Section Chair and has been a Third Party Provider for The MathWorks since 1994. He founded his engineering consulting business in 1989.

Customized Simulation Models and Design Tools

Representative Design Projects

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