SOLO, A Motor Controller for All Motors

We just published an in-depth article on Motion Planning algorithms used in Modern #servodrives mostly used in high-precision #robotics applications, it explains thoroughly all the mathematics behind them and how one can approach selecting and using them properly...

https://www.solomotorcontrollers.com/blog/motion-planning-servo-drives/

Today we released a major new update for the firmware of SOLO Motor Controllers which will activate the CANopen functionality for them, this will allow our users to put SOLO units in CAN bus networks and utilize them with other industrial machines and systems.
#CANopen #motorcontrols #servodrives

Read SOLO UNO CANopen Manual

Induction Motors are playing a crucial role in our everyday lives, by powering up numerous industrial plants and systems from simple AC Blowers to very complicated and enormous Mine Excavation machines, they've been around dating back to 1887, but just recently due to the advent of Digital Signal Processing we have the chance to control them with the advanced methods like Field Oriented Controls.

Here in this article, we are discussing in detail the internal structure of the AC Induction motors and how they are controlled by VFDs and more explicitly how the Field Oriented Control is done with these Motors, we also show here a comprehensive dynamic modeling of an AC Induction motor with Squirrel case structure which can help in understanding them better.

https://www.solomotorcontrollers.com/induction-motor/

A new video showing how one can simply set up and run your low-inductance fast brushless motor using Raspberry Pi and SOLO in sensorless Mode to reach up to 30,000RPM of mechanical speed.
The Raspberry Pi interfaces SOLO using UART and puts SOLO in Digital Mode and send and receives commands through the Raspberry Pi Python library written for SOLO.

This video shows how to simply control the Torque of a BLDC motor on Raspberry Pi using Python programming with SOLO.
The method is done using Hall sensors mounted on the Brushless DC motor and it offers precise and bidirectional torque control.
Raspberry Pi sends all the commands through its UART line to SOLO and SOLO will take care of the delivering power and controlling the Torque of the BLDC in closed-loop mode.
HALL sensors setup and calibration with SOLO:
https://www.solomotorcontrollers.com/hall-sensors-to-solo-for-controlling-speed-torque-brushless-motor/
SOLO UNO:

https://www.solomotorcontrollers.com/product/solo-uno/

Link to the Article:

A new video tutorial demonstrating how you can set up and servo-drive a DC Brushed Motor with SOLO is just out!
DC Motors are widely used in the industry and here in this video, we show how to verify the correct connection of Encoder and the DC Motor's wires continuing with testing Speed and Position controllers in the Motion Terminal and turning SOLO into a servo driver for DC brushed Motors.

https://www.solomotorcontrollers.com/product/solo-uno/

Windows DLL for SOLO’s Digital Control is out! It will make the use of SOLO in third-party software like Labview, Matlab-Simulink, and the rest far easier and more accessible (download link in the comments section)
#Labview #simulink #motorcontrols #servodrives

Here's our latest article on the Position controlling of a PMSM with Raspberry Pi interfacing SOLO! The whole code is written in Python using our Raspberry Pi library for SOLO.

https://www.solomotorcontrollers.com/raspberry-pi-brushless-motor-position-control-incremental-encoders-code/

We just published a new article, demonstrating the Speed controlling of a high-speed Brushless motor using Raspberry Pi and SOLO by coding in Python.
There we show how easily you can interface Raspberry Pi to SOLO for Closed-loop controlling of a BLDC reaching up to 30,000RPM in sensor-less mode with Field Oriented Control.

https://www.solomotorcontrollers.com/simplest-way-to-control-a-brushless-motor-with-raspberry-pi/

Multi-Core processing in Motor controlling is shaping the future of this field, and we wrote an article explaining how a multi-core architecture prevails at any level over conventional Single-Core controllers, all of our products are having a multi-core design with the parallel processing that enables them to offer superior cost/performance.