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Driving a servo motor is much like driving a car. Driving a car has many similarities including the key concepts of torque, velocity and position control. Most of this happens in the driver's head the same way than a servo drive does with a motor.

Driving (a.k.a servoing) a car

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Driver as a controller

Low feedback gain and sluggish response

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Too high feedback gain and instability

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Optimum feedback gain and performance

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