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Teaching Old Motors New Tricks - Part 1

Texas Instruments

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

276K views12 years ago5 recommendations

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Dave Wilson introduces motor control theory, PI and PID controllers, and field-oriented control principles.

While motor topologies have remained relatively unchanged over the past century, control techniques by comparison have experienced explosive growth. This has been driven in large part by technology advancements in the semiconductor industry. This seminar focuses specifically on advancements in the control of motors, with an emphasis on field-oriented principles with brushless AC motors. This video is part 1 of a 5-part series and covers the introduction to motor control, PI controllers, PID controllers, and an intro to Field Oriented Control.

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What people say. Highly recommended by embedded engineers as one of the best lecture series for learning motor control and FOC theory.

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u/alfa_eddin r/embedded • Recommends

On “Motor Control Book”

I don't remember any book now but Texas instruments has application reports that can be useful are a bit hard to find but worthy, also you can find examples in C for theirs DSPs. Also Seminars, like this.
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u/RFchokemeharderdaddyin r/embedded • Recommends

On “How much relevant are Engineering subjects like control systems, electromagnetic theory for embedded developers. I am clear with network analysis, analog, digital electronics. But I am not able to wrap my head around other subjects and their relevance to embedded systems”

Motor controls are implemented in firmware. You need to have a solid grasp of the theory to implement it, even if its another engineer who comes up with the algorithm or parameters. link to this video
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u/Interesting_Lab_3148in r/embedded • Recommends

On “Stm32 Active object and Super Simple Tasker Example”

I think the best way to learn control theory is to apply it to a real system. To get the most out of the maths around control theory you really have to understand the system you are trying to control, where some of the assumptions that you make in LQR etc may fall over (around the noise / linearity of the system etc). And how everything works in practice. You mention motor position estimation, So I would suggest looking into motor control for example. If you have access to simulink, write a simple model of a PMSM motor in simulink and a field orientated controller and put it through its paces in simulation land. If you don't have access to simulink (student/home licenses are reasonably ch…
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u/Celtivusin r/embedded • Recommends

On “Looking for tutorials on BLDC motor controller design”

The best lecture i have seen on motor control is the "teaching old motors new tricks" from Dave Wilson. [video It mostly applies on FOC, but you can reuse a lot of the concepts for BLDC, and it never hurts to have a more thoughout foundation
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u/FunDeckHermitin r/embedded • Recommends

On “How to implement, verify & validate PID controller on uC ?”

Have you seen the Texas Instrument Youtube series? Teaching Old Motors New Tricks - Part 1
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