I was approached by a supplier who would like to have its servo driver for a robotic gripper roadtested.
Here's an image and the basic description:
The TMCM-1617-GRIP-REF is an open-source hardware reference design for the TMCM-1617 BLDC servo driver. To be used in robotic gripper applications, the board is designed in a standard gripper electronics form-factor. It is able to control a BLDC motor via EtherCAT
, IO-Link, or RS485 using Trinamic's TMCL protocol. In addition, the board features 1 configurable analog output and 1 configurable analog input, using Maxim’s MAX22000 industrial configurable analog I0 device and 4 configurable digital input, digital outputs, using Maxim’s MAX14906 device.
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My question is how would you choose to roadtest it? Would you build a robotic gripper? Do you need a bldc motor? encoder? hall sensor?
It sounds like a great product, but depending on what you would like to do with it the roadtest could be simple to complex.
What would you need beside the servo driver to roadtest this product?
This page has the documentation: https://www.trinamic.com/support/eval-kits/details/tmcm-1617-grip-ref/
Sincerely,
Randall Scasny
RoadTest Program Manager
