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Mechanics and Construction => Mechanics and Construction => Topic started by: kuma on August 04, 2008, 10:22:30 AM

Title: Beginner question: Motor position feedback
Post by: kuma on August 04, 2008, 10:22:30 AM

Please forgive my ignorance as I'm new to engineering, electronics and robotics!

I'm looking for information around stepper or servo motors that can have their position set by hand and provide feedback on this position.

Any guidance on what type of components I would need to achieve this?

Any help appreciated!

Title: Re: Beginner question: Motor position feedback
Post by: sonictj on August 04, 2008, 03:33:06 PM

from this site:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/actuators.shtml (http://www.societyofrobots.com/actuators.shtml)

other refrences:

steppers:
http://www.makingthings.com/documentation/how-to/stepper-motor
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/%7Ejones/step/types.html

Title: Re: Beginner question: Motor position feedback
Post by: airman00 on August 04, 2008, 04:26:07 PM

search google for encoders

Title: Re: Beginner question: Motor position feedback
Post by: kuma on August 05, 2008, 03:14:32 AM

Thanks guys.

For reference, the following article was very useful to me: http://www.societyofrobots.com/sensors_encoder.shtml.