Customer project: Robert Cowan’s remote controlled robotic snow plow, built from a wheelchair chassis with two 24V wheelchair motors on a RoboClaw motor controller in RC mode, a wheelchair linear actuator for the blade, and a solenoid e-stop.
Auto Tuning with Motion Studio
In systems with a PID controller, the proportional, integral, and derivative values must be set properly for the controller to work well. Motion Studio can tune these values automatically for a motor and encoder combination. This guide covers auto tuning velocity and position control and fine tuning the results.
Graphing in Motion Studio
Motion Studio feature the ability to graph different aspects of a motor, encoder and the controller against each other in real time. This Application Note covers the use of this feature.
SGVHAK Rover
Before the JPL open source rover plans were released to the public the members of the San Gabriel Valley Hardware Hackers Group built a rover based around the pre-beta plans developed by JPL. In this Customer Project article we look at the technical details of their build.
Position Settings in Motion Studio
The Position Settings window of Motion Studio is where the control loop for positon control is tuned and tested. This Application Note covers the controls and settings of this widow and what they are used for.
Agent 390 Build
This Customer Project article looks at an excellent build of the Agent 390 kit from Actobotics.
Velocity Settings in Motion Studio
The Velocity Settings window in Motion Studio is where motors and encoder are tested. It’s also the location where tuning of motor and encoder combinations is carried out. This Application Note details all of the functionality within this section of Motion Studio.
PWM Settings in Motion Studio
This App Note is part of a series on the usage and features of Motion Studio. This article covers the PWM Settings window that is used for motor and encoder testing.
JPL’s Open Source Mars Rover
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the team behind the Curiosity rover, released plans for a scaled-down version of the famous Mars rover that anyone can build. This project note looks at the original RoboClaw-based build and where the open source rover project stands today.
ROVer Project
This Customer Project feature looks at a semi-autonomous robot named ROVer. Rover is built around Actobotics parts, a pair of RoboClaw motor controllers and an Arduino.