Robotics, Motor Controllers
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Hi people,
I'm working on a soccer robot, I need to control motors for it's
movement. I have purchased the "Lynxmotion" "h-bridge" aswell as
the Texas Instruments "SN754410". On initial inspection of
instructions of each, it seems that they can only control the motor
to be forward/reverse (I think the h-bridge may have one lower speed
setting). I was just wondering, anyone whose used these motor
controllers before, is this right? Can it really only control the
motors to go at one speed or is the speed variable?
Thanks
James
I'm working on a soccer robot, I need to control motors for it's
movement. I have purchased the "Lynxmotion" "h-bridge" aswell as
the Texas Instruments "SN754410". On initial inspection of
instructions of each, it seems that they can only control the motor
to be forward/reverse (I think the h-bridge may have one lower speed
setting). I was just wondering, anyone whose used these motor
controllers before, is this right? Can it really only control the
motors to go at one speed or is the speed variable?
Thanks
James
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for. It lets you enable an h-bridge for PART of the
time, so you can control the motor speed. If you
cycle pwm on a millisecond basis, the motor windings
average the pulses to produce a smooth, though
lower-speed motor movement.
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<ensignkim113@y...> wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I'm working on a soccer robot, I need to control motors for it's
> movement. I have purchased the "Lynxmotion" "h-bridge" aswell as
> the Texas Instruments "SN754410". On initial inspection of
> instructions of each, it seems that they can only control the motor
> to be forward/reverse (I think the h-bridge may have one lower
speed
> setting). I was just wondering, anyone whose used these motor
> controllers before, is this right? Can it really only control the
> motors to go at one speed or is the speed variable?
>
> Thanks
> James
> I'm working on a soccer robot, I need to control motors for it's
> movement. I have purchased the "Lynxmotion" "h-bridge" as well as
> the Texas Instruments "SN754410". On initial inspection of
> instructions of each, it seems that they can only control the motor
> to be forward/reverse (I think the h-bridge may have one lower speed
> setting). I was just wondering, anyone whose used these motor
> controllers before, is this right? Can it really only control the
> motors to go at one speed or is the speed variable?
Actually the H-bridge has three speeds: full reverse, off & full
forward. The "trick" is to use Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) to switch
between off and ether of the full directions for a percentage of time
proportional to the percentage of full speed. For example, to move
forward at 50% of full speed you turn on the H-bridge for half the
time. For 90% full speed turn on the H-bridge for 90% of the time.
Most of the popular microcontrolers include hardware and/or software
support for PWM.
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