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Torque control now in place!

A project log for WEEDINATOR 2019

The WEEDINATOR project continues .... The inevitability of robots working on farms draws ever nearer ....

capt-flatus-oflahertyCapt. Flatus O'Flaherty ☠ 05/09/2018 at 16:040 Comments

When the machine was driving over rough ground the wheels would lose synch with each other and get positional errors showing on the motor drive displays. A current sensor PCB was built to override positional control when necessary by effectively monitoring the torque instead:

The machine was made to drive over a ramp under one of the wheels to simulate uneven ground and the MCU code was tweaked to get the torque balanced throughout the operation.

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