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Differential Drive DC Motor Control
Motion control, servos, steppers, etc. topic
Posted by Tim on 6 November, 2009 - 2:33 am
I'm doing a autonomous robot based on a differential drive design (2 wheels controlled by 2 motors) and we're having difficulty setting up a good PID controller to allow the robot to go straight. I am interested in knowing how to parametrize a tiny DC motor that way I can use a state space approach for the PID controller. Any help will be greatly appreciated.


Posted by Ken E on 6 November, 2009 - 8:09 am
What type of feedback are you using to control the DC motors? If you use
a decent encoder to track error, you should have no problem making the
two motors track position well with a PID controller.

KEJR


Posted by Leon on 8 November, 2009 - 1:43 pm
For tuning each servo axes separately as first step, Application Note from Galil maybe suggested:

www.galilmc.com/support/appnotes/optima/note3413.pdf

But I think you need dual axes controller at least with possibility to perform crossing control between axes.

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