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Tutorial SMC3 Arduino 3DOF Motor Driver and Windows Utilities

Discussion in 'SimTools compatible interfaces' started by RufusDufus, Dec 1, 2013.

  1. Pit

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    This is going offtopic, please continue discussing in the appropriate forum. All further posts not related to SMC3 will be deleted without any warning.
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    ok, sorry.
    Edit:
    I finally succeeded!
    finally it was the output information, they are not up to date today for V2.1!
    thanks for the help.
    I post on the good post for the continuation.
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    Ok I have read this entire post 2 times.. I'm at a loss and need some help. I'm running a 3DOF setup. My pich and roll are fine. My traction loss how ever has died. I thought it was a bad pot sensor, i replaced that... nope. Then i thought it was the IBT2 bridge, replaced that... nope. Then i figured its got to be the arduno, replaced that.. nope.. Pretty much the motor only runs on one direction. when i move the pot sensor it will speed it up and slow it down. But it will not reverse the direction. Any help here would be great before i toss this thing out the second floor window !!!! I have triple checked thge wiring, re soldered everything ....
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    What do you see with SMC3Utils?
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    Its odd, see attached. As move the pot manually, the motor will turn on slowly. Then it jumps right tothe max and turns the motor off. If I loosen the coupler, i can keep the motor spinning if I keep the green line under the blue line. But once it crosses the line it jumps right up and turns off the motor.

    Here are the screen shots from SMC3:
    https://ibb.co/gygzh6
    https://ibb.co/b00s26
    https://ibb.co/b8U8aR

    You can see in the pic, this is when i keep the motor running. Only spins in one direction.
    https://ibb.co/cNewUm
    https://ibb.co/itf39m
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  6. Jamin01

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    Hi @RufusDufus

    I am going to make myself sound really dumb, as I think I have missed a very important piece of the puzzle, so here goes.

    The SMC3 utility is for preloading the already uploaded SMC.ino Arduino code before being able to use SimTools? Is this correct? Maybe I need to go back to the start and reread your setup post

    I thought it was for testing the operation only.

    Cheers
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    Check back to the start of the thread, the Utility is to make doing the setup easy: https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...3dof-motor-driver-and-windows-utilities.4957/
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    Thanks @noorbeast ,

    I was really hoping for more info though. Do I set up the utility with the rough numbers, using RufusDufus's guide on one motor, send the same data to the second motor, then hit "save" and "load"...Close SMC3 Utility, open SimTools Game Manager and using output testing, all should work?

    Is the Utility info, as I will set up, be sent to the Arduino?
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    Scrap that... I understand what the save and load do now.

    So if I leave the settings as they are now ( I have set the Utility so the motors run) that info will be stored in the Arduino?

    I will try it again now and see what happens
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    OK... success! We have movement via the output testing. The motors are quite noisy but I think I can play with that using RufusDufus instructions

    I didn't realise that the utility was the actual programmer for the arduino, not just a tester. My bad. It's only onward and upward from here, I am hoping. Once I start playing with the settings (now I understand better), I am sure it will be a good thing.

    Thanks for everyone's help.

    Cheers
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    The Wiring Details are not the same sa the schematic @eaorobbie posted just under the wiring details?

    What is the correct wiring for this .ino file and a aurduino with 2 motors & 2 10k pots?
  12. MuñozChile2dof

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    thanks you sou much @RufusDufus i follow your tutorial and i have possitive results yet, soon i upload pictures and videos.
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    @moaale i have the same problem yesterday, just try to restart your pc, verify the com port and try to upload the code, if you want sent me a pm and i can help you better.
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    I have problems with the excess of rotation of the motors, according to the tutorial this would be the solution? But should I connect an5 arduino to the center pin of the potentiometer? And this is the parameter that should be reduced to reduce excess of rotation?

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    can you reduce the movement using simtools ? reduce the motion to say 15% and observe the results
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    thanks @Gadget999, i reduce axis amount to use and increased the KP parameter in SMC3 utilities and everything works perfect, again thank you so much.
    Soon i upload the video.

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    what pots are using for your project? please upload pictures of your stuff.
    que potenciómetros estás usando? por favor postea fotos de tus componentes.
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    @RufusDufus Can you move stepper motors with smc3? Hybrid motors controlled by bridges h
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    What do you mean by not moving precise potentiometers? My idea is to use two direct nema42 without reducer, they have 28nm and I get for € 130 each, I do not know if this would be possible

    A que te refieres con que no mueve preciso los potenciometros? Mi idea es usar dos nema42 directos sin reductora, tienen 28nm y me salen por 130€ cada uno, no se si seria posible esto
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    @RufusDufus just want to say thanks for all the effort with this controller! I was able to get @RacingMat's code working pretty well too, but its nice to have a full-blown PID controller. I look forward to tuning it to see just how far I can take this Arduino and wiper motors.