Features of the construction and justification of the main parameters of the walking movement mechanism technological machines

The peculiarities of the design and process of movement of technological machines equipped with a four-axle stepping motor with the method of determining the main parameters of such a mechanism are considered. The factors influencing the operation of the drive of such a mechanism, their impact on efficiency and the main ways to improve such a mechanism of movement are shown.

Design of stepper motor driver based on STM32

In the field of industrial control, stepping has been widely used as an actuator. For this article, based on STM32F103 as the control core, the functions of start and stop, forward rotation, reverse rotation and speed regulation of the stepping motor are realized through four buttons. The system uses L293D to drive a stepper motor, LED0 and LED1 two status lights display the motor’s forward and reverse rotation status, and the digital tube displays the current stepper motor speed. The whole system includes L293D module, button module, status light module and speed display module. The whole system is modeled, theoretically analyzed and simulated based on the drive control principle of the stepper motor, and the precise and stable control performance of the system under different occasions is further verified through experiments.

Self-learning current optimizing control for conventional stepping motor drive technique based on step pulses

The essential advantage of the conventional stepping motor drive technique bases on step command pulses is the ability of open-loop positioning. By ruling out the cost of a position sensor, stepping motors are preferred in low power positioning applications. However, machine developers also want to obtain high dynamics with these small and cheap stepping motors. For that reason, stepping motors are used at its limits as much as possible. A drawback of the open-loop control is the continuous risk of missing a step due to overload. Due to this uncertainty, robustness is a major issue in stepping motor applications. Until today, to reduce the possibility of step loss, the motor is typically driven at maximum current level or is over-dimensioned with results in low-efficiency. Therefore in this paper, a self-learning [Formula: see text]-controller optimizing the current is presented. Moreover, to allow broad industrial applicability, this technique is computationally simple, needs no mechanical or electrical parameter knowledge and take into account the unique character of stepping motors and their conventional drive technique based on step command pulses. The proposed algorithm is validated through measurements on a hybrid stepping motor.

Research on LED multi-sector stable display model in variable rotational speed

To solve the display distortion caused by the motor rotational speed changes in the long-term operation of the rotating LED multi-sector display system，the model for LED multi-sector stable display (MSSD) in variable rotational speed is proposed based on the principle of visual persistence. The stepping motor subdivision driving technology is applied to the rotating LED multi-sector display, and the equal precision frequency measurement method is used for accurate rotational speed measurement. Then the innovation adaptive kalman filter (IAKF) is researched to further enhance the robustness to eliminate noise pollution, and the relationship between the modification value caused by rotational speed and the LED linear array minimum refresh time is analysed. The rotating LED MSSD system based on LED linear array rotated by stepping motor is provided. The test results reveal the relationship between rotational speed and the LED linear array minimum refresh time, and show that the lighting position of the LED can be synchronized with the lighting state during the rotational speed fluctuation, and the error can be controlled to a low level via LED linear array minimum refresh time correction．The designed model can effectively eliminate the distortion of the rotating LED multi-sector display screen caused by the changes of the motor rotational speed, and has a very stable display effect.

Digital Control of a Stepping Motor for Eliminating Rotation Speed Fluctuations Using Adaptive Gains

Nowadays, stepping motors are usually used as precise actuators in various new scientific fields, such as syringe pumps, blood analyzers, and bio-3D printers. Controlling rotation of the stepping motor without speed fluctuation under no-load conditions plays an important role in improving the accuracy of the machine’s drive. This paper proposes a digital control method for a five-phase hybrid stepping motor. The proposed controller includes an original control loop and a PI adaptive integration gain control loop. The original digital control loop is redesigned from the analog controller by using the direct PIM method. The PI adaptive control loop is added to the original control loop in a parallel way to remove a steady deviation of the motor and suppress a physical saturation factor inside the plant. Lyapunov stability theory is used to prove a stability condition of the PI regulator gains. Experimental results show that the proposed controller can suppress the chattering caused by the switching structure and gives performances as good as that of the commercial analog controller in a high rotation speed range without fluctuation.

Airborne Laser Communication System with Automated Tracking

The acquisition, alignment, and tracking system is an important part of airborne laser communication and is the prerequisite and guarantee for the normal communication link. In order to solve the problem of automatic tracking of laser communication links in the airborne environment, the rapid capture, alignment, and tracking of beams between terminals are realized. This article proposes a stepping motor as a control servo system and a four-quadrant detector as an automatic tracking method for the detection unit. The pulse width modulation signal controls the rotation speed of the stepping motor and combines the position distribution of the light spot on the four-quadrant detector to achieve high-precision beam tracking. On this basis, indoor simulation experiments are carried out. After many experiments, the tracking accuracy is better than 2.5 μrad, which shows that the system can be applied to airborne laser communication, and it is verified that this method has good automatic tracking performance for airborne laser communication.

Research on the design of stepping motor drive system controlled by single-chip microcomputer

In order to meet the needs of operation and management of stepping motors in the Internet of things environment, this paper designed the software and hardware of the stepping motor drive system under the control of a single-chip microcomputer based on LabVIEW, which is a graphical programming platform developed by National Instruments Corporation of the United States, and tested and verified the functions of the system. The software part transmitted data between the host computer and the driver terminal based on a service cloud platform called Easy-Control, realizing the network real-time online management operation function. The hardware design made full use of the existing functions of the STM32F407ZGT6 single-chip microcomputer; moreover, the design of circuits was simplified by the special driver chip LV8726TA for stepping motor to increase system stability. The software and hardware of the system were developed on the LabVIEW platform, which had the advantages of high efficiency, short development cycle, low cost, and convenient function expansion. This work provides a scheme for the design and implementation of similar systems.