Stepping Motor Control System
Unknown author (1979-02)
This report describes research done at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Support for the laboratory's artificial intelligence research is provided in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Office of Naval Research contract N00014-77-C-0389.
Working Paper
This paper describes a hardware system designed to facilitate position and velocity control of a group of eight stepping motors using a PDP-11. The system includes motor driver cards and other interface cards in addition to a special digital control module. The motors can be driven at speeds up to 3000 rpm. Position feedback is provided by shaft encoders, but tachometers are not used.