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Has FOC Become the "V8 Engine" of Motor Control?
Field-Oriented Control dominates modern motor drives, especially for PMSMs and BLDCs.
But CPUs are now absurdly powerful and inexpensive compared to when FOC became standard.
If motor control were reinvented from scratch today, would we still arrive at FOC, or are there alternative control strategies that were historically too computationally expensive to seriously consider?
Has motor control reached a local optimum, or are we just benefiting from decades of ecosystem momentum?
u/Ok_Zookeepergame768 — 14 days ago