Dear Arduino users and Motor Control application developpers
I require your help to define new Arduino motor control shields, which could be helpful for every user in their evaluation of a motor topology and better understand its control rules.
Command board for DC motors like Stepper, Brushed and Brushless, the most widespread, might generate the easiest and lower-cost design (for low-voltage motors).
Then we could consider command board for AC motors like PMSM and ACIM, if we are successful with DC command boards and if there is customer interests.
Applications targeted will be robotic, toys, home-automation equipments ...
For the MCU board, I already identified the FRDM-KE02ZFRDM-KE02Z, embedding the new Freescale MKE02Z64VQH2 (32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ and 5V MCU)
Direct link to the Knode group for the Freedom Development Platform HERE
The goal will be to minimize the number of external components to generate the lower BOM cost for each motor-control command board.
It could be nice to integrate a low-cost and low-voltage motor on the shield that user can immediatly start evaluating the kit out-of-the box.
Then a connector will allow users to reuse the command and the MCU boards to prototype his application with his own motor.
I have not seen yet such a motor control toolbox, composed of several shields that customers could simply interchange, when they want to evaluate a new motor type, keeping their programming expertise with an MCU, correct me if I am wrong ?
Do you have recommandations for the range of voltage/current required for the Stepper, Brushed and Brushless DC motors, in order to satisfy the requirements of the most widespread motor-control applications ?
Feel free to share with me any comment which might be relevant for this board development activity.
