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1  Actuators are used in order to produce mechanical movement in robots.

 In this lecture we will present:  Motor and Encoder  H-Bridge  Pulse-Width-Modulation (PWM)  Servos  Other robotic actuators

3  Electrical  Hydraulic  Pneumatic  Others

 Actuators can be built in may different ways, most prominently:  electrical motors  pneumatics and valves.  In this course we will only deal with electrical motors  In past we built pneumatic robots which you can still find in the lab.  We will build them again after purchasing air compressor  My first robot was very strong and it was hydraulic. It pissed hot oil at students in Warsaw.

5 SERVO SYSTEM Servo is mechanism based on feedback control. The controlled quantity is mechanical.

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7  high maximum torque/force allows high (de)acceleration  high zero speed torque/force  high bandwidth provides accurate and fast control  works in all four quadrants  robustness

8 ELECTRICAL ACTUATORS  easy to control  from mW to MW  normally high velocities rpm  several types  accurate servo control  ideal torque for driving  excellent efficiency  autonomous power system difficult

Mainly rotating but also linear ones are available linear movement with gear or with real linear motor

10  DC-motors  brushless DC-motors  asynchronous motors  synchronous motors  reluctance motors (stepper motors)

11 DC-MOTORS  simple, cheap  easy to control  1W - 1kW  can be overloaded  brushes wear  limited overloading on high speeds

 Controller + H-bridge  PWM-control  Speed control by controlling motor current=torque  Efficient small components  PID control

 Hardware Implementation with Microcontroller:  2 Digital output pins from microcontroller, [one at Gnd, one at Vcc] feed into a power amplifier  Alternative: use only 1 digital output pin plus one inverter, then feed into a power amplifier

POWER AMPLIFIER

18  no brushes  no wearing parts  high speeds  coils on cover => better cooling  excellent power/weight ratio  simple  needs both speed and angle feedback  more complicated controller  From small to medium power (10W – 50kW)

19  very simple, very popular in industry  0,5kW - 500kW  More difficult to control (frequency)  nowadays as accurate control as DC-motors  In mobile machines also (5kW  )

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21  usually big 100 kW - XXMW  also small ones ~ brushless DC-motors from 50W to 100 kW  controlled like as-motors (frequency)  ships  industry  Mobile machines

Stepper Motors

23  angle control  slow  usually no feedback used  accurate positioning  with out feedback not servos  easy to control

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 Stepper motors are another kind of motors that do not require feedback  A stepper motor can be incrementally driven, one step at a time, forward or backward  Stepper motor characteristics are:  Number of steps per revolution (e.g. 200 steps per revolution = 1.8° per step)  Max. number of steps per second (“stepping rate” = max speed)  Driving a stepper motor requires a 4 step switching sequence for full-step mode  Stepper motors can also be driven in 8 step switching sequence for half- step mode (higher resolution)  Step sequence can be very fast, the the resulting motion appears to be very smooth

 Advantages  No feedback hardware required  Disadvantages  No feedback (!) Often feedback is still required, e.g. for precision reasons, since a stepper motor can “lose” a step signal.  Requires 2 H-Bridges plus amplifiers instead of 1  Other  Driving software is different but not much more complicated  Some controllers (e.g. M68332) support stepper motors in firmware (TPU)

MOTOR AND ENCODER

 Motor speed determined by: supplied voltage  Motor direction determined by: polarity of supplied voltage  Difficult to generate analog power signal (1A..10A) directly from microcontroller → external amplifier (pulse-width modulation)

 Encoder disk is turned once for each rotor revolution  Encoder disk can be optical or magnetic  Single detector can determine speed  Dual detector can determine speed and direction  Using gears on motor shaft increases encoder accuracy

PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION  A/D converters are used for reading analog sensor signals  Why not use D/A converter for motor control?  Too expensive (needs power circuitry)  Better do it by software, switching power on/off in intervals  This is called “Pulse-Width Modulation” or PWM

 How does this work?  We do not change the supplied voltage  Power is switched on/off at a certain pulse ratio matching the desired output power  Signal has very high frequency (e.g. 20kHz)  Motors are relatively slow to respond  The only thing that counts is the supplied power  ⇒ Integral (Summation)  Pulse-Width Ratio = t on / t period

SERVOS

 Terminology:  Do not confuse “servos” with “servo motors”  DC motors (brushed or brushless) are also sometimes also referred to as “servo motors”  See:  “So when does a motor become a servo motor? There are certain design criteria that are desired when building a servo motor, which enable the motor to more adequately handle the demands placed on a closed loop system.  First of all, servo systems need to rapidly respond to changes in speed and position, which require high acceleration and deceleration rates.  This calls for extremely high intermittent torque.

 As you may know, torque is related to current in the brushed servo motor.  So the designers need to keep in mind the ability of the motor to handle short bursts of very high current, which can be many times greater than the continuous current requirements.  Another key characteristic of the brushed servo motor is a high torque to inertia ratio.  This ratio is an important factor in determining motor responsiveness.  Further, servo motors need to respond to small changes in the control signal.  So the design requires reaction to small voltage variations.”

Jussi SuomelaHUT/Automation 43 HYDRAULIC ACTUATORS  linear movement  big forces without gears  actuators are simple  in mobile machines  Bad efficiency  motor, pump, actuator combination is lighter than motor, generator, battery, motor & gear combination

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46  servo valves  complicated structure, expensive  good control  proportional valves  simple, cheap  robust  more difficult to control  Digital hydraulics, new!  several fast on/off valves (2 n )  digital control of the flow

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49 PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS  like hydraulic except power from compressed air  fast on/off type tasks  big forces with elasticity  no leak problems

50  piezoelectric  magnetic  ultra sound  SMA  inertial

EXAMPLES