Can anyone recommend a board that's beginner friendly, but also allows for a fair amount of "adjustment"? I looked at ti c2000 and variants, but the devkit seems kind of involved with all the addon boards.

Thanks so much

Joe

 

What are the details of the motor? What is its purpose? Voltage etc?

 

What are the details of the motor? What is its purpose? Voltage etc?

UAV. Not settled on target voltage yet.

Initially we will do this, just for practice, using standard arduino boards.

https://www.mathworks.com/campaigns...hms/motor-speed-control.html?s_tid=dl_prv_nxt

They have an arduino library, so we can program the board directly from Matlab.

Afterwards we will choose a smaller board amd a smaller motor. So, anything that minimizes time converting from matlab to the target code is optimal.

Thanks again

Joe

 

Not sure of the end intention, but I have always tended to use secondhand drives, Ebay etc for motor control, one favorite is AMC.
Ebay $55.00

 

Not sure this will support the algorithm in the matlab code. TYSM tho.

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Can anyone recommend a board that's beginner friendly, but also allows for a fair amount of "adjustment"? I looked at ti c2000 and variants, but the devkit seems kind of involved with all the addon boards.

Thanks so much

Joe

I used a PICDEM MC-LV board when designing the original motor controllers for our AUV. We then shrank the design onto some small PCBs for the vehicle. That development board is long obsolete but I would expect that Microchip still have something similar in their range.

 

Not sure of the end intention, but I have always tended to use secondhand drives, Ebay etc for motor control, one favorite is AMC.
Ebay $55.00

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We used those controllers on our original AUV around 30 years ago. We then designed our own which were much smaller and more efficient based on a PIC development board design.

 

We used those controllers on our original AUV around 30 years ago. We then designed our own which were much smaller and more efficient based on a PIC development board design.

I liked them because they were 0-20ma control , transconductance drives, and fit well with the Galil motion controllers I was using for CNC.
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I used a PICDEM MC-LV board when designing the original motor controllers for our AUV. We then shrank the design onto some small PCBs for the vehicle. That development board is long obsolete but I would expect that Microchip still have something similar in their range.

And according to section 4.1 in

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029801823010107

it looks like my design is still being used for the propulsion motor in ALR1500.

 

Check out the circuit on the MotorCell over at microcell.io. It uses a single IC to drive a BLDC axial motor. This is a low voltage. low power system, but gets a motor spinning from an arduino with minimal effort. The IC uses a PWM input to control the speed. The circuit is open source. They even have an arduino library for the MotorCell module. This is based on the BD67173NUX IC.