Servo may refer to:

Mechanisms

Servomechanism In mechanical and control engineering, a servomechanism (also called servo system, or simply servo) is a control system for the position and its time derivatives, such as velocity, of a mechanical system. It often includes a servomotor, and ...

, or servo, a device used to provide control of a desired operation through the use of feedback **

AI servo An autofocus (AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a Electric motor, motor to Focus (optics), focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area. An Rangefinder camera#Digital rangefinder, electronic rangefinder has a ...

, an autofocus mode **

Electrohydraulic servo valve An actuator is a machine element, component of a machine that produces force, torque, or Displacement (geometry), displacement, when an electrical, Pneumatics, pneumatic or Hydraulic fluid, hydraulic input is supplied to it in a system (called an ...

, an electrically operated valve that controls how hydraulic fluid is ported to an actuator **

Servo drive A servo drive is an electronic amplifier An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a Signal (information theory), signal (a time-varying voltage or Electric current, cu ...

, a special electronic amplifier used to power electric servomechanisms **

Servomotor A servomotor (or servo motor or simply servo) is a rotary or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity, and acceleration in a mechanical system. It constitutes part of a servomechanism, and consi ...

, a rotary actuator that allows for precise control of angular position **

Servo (radio control) Servos (also RC servos) are small, cheap, mass-produced servomotors or other actuators used for radio control and small-scale robotics. Most servos are rotary actuators although other types are available. Linear actuators are sometimes used, alt ...

, a small, cheap, mass-produced actuator used for radio control and small robotics ***

Servo bandwidth Servo bandwidth is the maximum trackable sinusoidal frequency of amplitude A, with tracking achieved at or before 10% of A amplitude is reached. The servo bandwidth indicates the capability of the servo to follow rapid changes in the commanded inpu ...

, the maximum trackable sinusoidal frequency of an amplitude ***

Servo control Servo control is a method of controlling many types of servo (radio control), RC/hobbyist servos by sending the servo a PWM (pulse-width modulation) signal, a series of repeating pulses of variable width where either the width of the pulse (most ...

, the use of pulse width modulation to remotely control servos *

Servo tab A servo tab is a small hinged device installed on an aircraft control surface to assist the movement of the Flight control surfaces, control surfaces. Introduced by the German firm Flettner, servo tabs were formerly known as Flettner tabs. Ser ...

, a small hinged device installed on an aircraft control surface to assist the movement of the control surface

Media

Music

* "Servo", a song by The Brian Jonestown Massacre from the album ''

Give It Back! ''Give It Back!'' is the sixth studio album by the American psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released in 1997 by the Bomp! record label. Background and recording Notably, this is the only album with Peter Hayes, who later ...

Publications

* ''

SERVO Magazine ''SERVO Magazine'' is a monthly robotics publication produced by T&L Publications. The first issue appeared in November 2003. ''SERVO Magazine'' was a primary sponsor behind the Tetsujin competition, a contest where teams were challenged to desi ...

'', a monthly robotics publication

Television

* Sam "Servo" Collins, a fictional character from the television series, ''

Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad ''Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad'' (for short, ''SSSS'') is a television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions, Ultracom Inc. and DIC Productions, L.P., with distribution by All American Television. It ran for a duration of 53 episodes from ...

'' *

Tom Servo Tom Servo is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television show ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' (''MST3K''). Tom is one of two wise-cracking, robotic main characters of the show, built by Joel Robinson to act as a c ...

, a robot from the comedy television series, ''

Mystery Science Theater 3000 ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' (abbreviated as ''MST3K'') is an American science fiction comedy television series created by Joel Hodgson. The show premiered on WUCW, KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. It then ...

'' * Servo pen, a fictitious multipurpose tool used by Gary Seven in the ''Star Trek'' episode " Assignment: Earth"

Video games

* Servo, a non-playable character from the computer game '' The Sims: Livin' Large'' * Servo, a playable character from the expansion pack '' The Sims 2: Open for Business''

People

Marty Servo Mario "Marty" Severino (November 3, 1919 – February 9, 1969) was a professional boxer who held the undisputed world welterweight championship being the NBA, NYSAC, and ''The Ring'' welterweight titles. Servo began boxing in the mid-1930s ...

(1919–1969), the former world welterweight boxing champion *

Jennifer Servo Jennifer Lynn Servo (born Jennifer Lynn Olson, (September 23, 1979 – September 16, 2002) was an American news reporter whose murder is unsolved. In the early 2000s, she worked for KPAX-TV and KECI-TV in Montana, and KRBC-TV in Texas. Servo wa ...

(1979–2002), a former news reporter

Other uses

Servo (software) Servo is an experimental browser engine designed to take advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the Rust programming language. It seeks to create a highly parallel environment, in which rendering, layout, HTML p ...

, an experimental web browser engine originally developed by Mozilla *

Servo Robot Group SERVO-ROBOT Group is a company that develops and creates intelligent sensing and digital vision systems to simplify manufacturing process automation such as welding. Therefore, the main activity is to build intelligent sensing systems based on prec ...

, a digital vision and sensing system company *

Pasporta Servo The Pasporta Servo () is a hospitality exchange service available both online and in print that lists people in Esperanto culture who are willing to offer free homestays to speakers of Esperanto. It is maintained by the World Esperanto Youth Or ...

, a hospitality service for Esperantists * ''Servo'', Australian slang for a service station * Servotronic, speed-dependent

power steering Power steering is a system for reducing a driver's effort to turn a steering wheel of a motor vehicle, by using a power source to assist steering. Hydraulic or electric actuators add controlled energy to the steering mechanism, so the driver can ...

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