Servo System Best Practices / Lessons Learned?

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Is there a best practices or design guidelines document/book/article/ etc. that covers things like positioning / min / max distance between controller, drives and motors, shielding and grounding - in other words the real practical hands on problems in building a multi-axis servo system? Seems to be a wealth of vendor neutral descriptions about servo loops, tuning axis (individual components) and the like but very little on practical lessons of full systems. Is each application really that unique?

-Matthew

John Nagle · Accepted Answer

The manuals for Galil controllers are helpful in this regard.They go into issues like separation between the encoder and powerwiring.					John NagleMatthew wrote:

Matthew · Answer

Will take a look there. I went through their online tutorials but didn't see anything that seemed to address these sorts of issues. Also ran across a 7 page doc from AMC that was covered good wiring practices in a largely vendor neutral way. It is at

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other links out there?

werty · Answer

You have to have ur hands on the specific

hardware to do anything / learn . ----------------- I do ARM . Everything they told me DID

NOT FUNCTION , so i had to study it

and invent my own , much faster , easier

methods . I have $3000 in CPU's MCU's and potential pocket controllers . I will give my work free , ASAP . The Software is the biggest thrill . No C/C++ , no more assemblers , no Linux , no M$ ....much faster ..

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Dave · Answer

Sounds to me like it's going to be the kind of info in the rules and regulations a fair bit. Check out your local (be they national, state, district, etc) rules and you should find a fair amount of info on what should go where, shielding, positioning, etc

Dave

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