[TUT] [C] Stepper motors - real time dynamic ramping

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Posted by zbaird: Wed. May 6, 2009 - 02:40 AM
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I came across a nice article about dynamic ramping with some PIC example code, and got to playing with it. One thing led to another, and here is a restatement of the paper's premise and a port to an ATmega16.

Basically the physics and geometry of the motor system is reduced to two integers, one for acceleration/deceleration and the other for maximum speed. The move function does the rest. It generates constant acceleration and deceleration, imposing the maximum speed if necessary, all in the requested number of steps.

Special thanks to those who helped smooth out the rough draft - pradheep, Smiley, and Randy (rstahlhu).

The code is in ImageCraft C (don't forget that free 45 day demo version before you sneer), but Smiley has threatened to port it to IVC (Infinite Value Compiler) when he gets a chance.

The original document had a small error in Table 1. The corrected version has an additional column (labeled "Hex").

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Chuck Baird

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Posted by toalan: Wed. May 6, 2009 - 04:55 AM
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Mighty fine document, should be in pdf form and not word.

REgards,

Alan To

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Posted by zbaird: Wed. May 6, 2009 - 06:25 AM
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toalan wrote:
Mighty fine document, should be in pdf form and not word.

Great idea, Alan. If someone can convert if for me and send me the pdf, I'll add it to the zip file.

Chuck Baird

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Posted by clawson: Wed. May 6, 2009 - 08:54 AM
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Chuck,

Here's the PDF - if you don't already have "Cute PDF" then Google it and install it - as you can see it does a great job of creating .PDF files.

Cliff

EDIT: out of date PDF removed.

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Posted by js: Wed. May 6, 2009 - 09:27 AM
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...minus circuit diagram. As we all know diagrams are VERY bad for your health and therefore not included in this tutorial ...BUT... everyone knows how to wire them up, therefore superflous.

And if if don't like it ask for you money back and it will be cheerfully :evil: refunded.

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Posted by JohanEkdahl: Wed. May 6, 2009 - 01:00 PM
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Chuck!

I saw the original paper by D Austin, and printed it out immediately. I will finish the motor drive for my astronomical telescope any decade now, and this ten-year-ongoing project is highly stepper motor oriented. Anything stepper, and I'm your huckleberry! I fount the subject matter of the original paper extra interesting as this is exactly what I need for fast moves (slewing) over the sky. This adoption of yours seems to be a mighty fine work, although I have only browsed parts of it so far. I thank you for this work!

I hope I get the time this summer to play with this, and make it work for microstepping.

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No guarantees, but if we don't report problems they won't get much of  a chance to be fixed! Details/discussions at link given just above.

 

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Posted by zbaird: Wed. May 6, 2009 - 03:57 PM
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There is a small error in Table 1, in that I got the stepping sequence wrong. It is correct in the code; I just typed it into the table and a Gray Code jumped in the place of the (similar) stepper sequence. Thanks to eagle eyed Bob for catching this.

I've corrected it, made a pdf (thanks, Cliff, for the suggestion and the [now incorrect] pdf) and updated the files. Sorry for any trouble.

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Posted by zbaird: Wed. May 6, 2009 - 04:18 PM
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ask for you money back and it will be cheerfully refunded.

OK, for you I'll double your money back. Nobody else, though.

The I/O bits are specified in the comments. In this particular case I used an ere controller - the BD298 (Bob finally convinced me to order from them). It connects directly to PORTA as noted.

The motor's two coils go to the two pairs of coil outputs on the board. Which way you get the wires oriented determines which rotation is positive and which is negative.

It's the Mona Lisa of schematics. As such I have to protect it from unkind eyes.

And how do I rate ere? Fast, cheap, slightly terse documentation, and my first buy (this controller board) had a bad IC on it. Fortunately it was an inverter on the input lines, so a little brute force removal and soldered in jumpers and all was well. I'd buy from them again since Bob seems so happy.

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Posted by rledyard: Wed. May 6, 2009 - 05:04 PM
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@Johan

in case you're interested...

re microstepping with the AVR
Lady Ada has code in "Arduinese" here
http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/use.html

...and this guy has released the asm code for his microstepper board
http://avrstmd.com/

Randy

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Posted by js: Thu. May 7, 2009 - 03:10 AM
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When it comes to motors I'm a TIP and just showing my TIPpiness. :oops:

I did play with a 6 wire type and OC outputs a few years back but obviously this will not work with the same hardware and I will have to invest some money in new hardware. This may stop me from driving my Ferrari or even my private jet for a while, so it may have to wait.

(TIP=Totally Ignorant Person..or any other word one may want to substitute for the P. :? )

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Posted by Brian Fairchild: Mon. Aug 5, 2013 - 02:10 PM
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The original code that went with the D Austin article seems to have disappeared off the face of the 'net but, with the original authors permission, here it is.

Original filename "motor.c" or "01austin.zip".

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