AKARIN Servo

Description

AKARIN servo is an open source AC servo solution. It provides high performance torque servo, velocity servo and position servo, with an integrated motion trajectory generator. It is implemented based on Analog Devices' floating point DSP. Multiple AKARIN servo drives can be daisy-chained together to form a motion control array, which can achieve high precision synchronized multi-axis motion control. It is ideal for CNC machines, robotic arms and other applications that require high performance AC servo motion control. The AKARIN servo provides a simple Modbus-RTU interface over RS-485 for real-time commands and a custom protocol for setting up and tuning.

Details

Akarin Servo PCB (Rev. F)

Processor: ADSP-21479 floating point DSP
Bus voltage(max): 60v
Output power(max): 400W
Modulation frequency(max): 24000Hz
Servo mode: position, velocity, torque
Encoder resolution: 14bit
Modbus-RTU over RS-485

Features:

Motor state estimation using the Kalman filter

A Kalman filter is utilized to estimate the kinematic state of the motor. Smooth velocity estimation is accomplished to achieve high performance velocity control, even at very low speed.

Real-time vibration detection and suppression

The hardware FFT accelerator provided by the digital signal processor is utilized to analyze the error signal. Ten IIR notch filters are tuned in real-time based on the FFT result to detect and suppress mechanical vibration.

Jerk limited trigonometric velocity profile

A trigonometric velocity profile with jerk limitation is applied in the trajectory generation and interpolation for optimum kinematic performance.

Space vector modulation(SVPWM) / Field orientation control(FOC)

The modulation method applied is FOC based on SVPWM.

Multi-axis synchronized motion test
A multi-axis CNC milling machine is built to test the servo drives. It has 6 degrees of freedom - X, Y, Z, A, B and spindle. All axes are driven by AKARIN AC servos. X, Y, Z servos are rated 200W, A axis is rated 125W, B axis is rated 150W and spindle is rated 400W.

In this demonstration, two pencil leads were chucked onto the A axis, a flange with corresponding holes and two screws was installed on the spindle servo. A series of complicated motions were implemented using the AKARIN servos, running at very high speed(up to 3000RPM), without breaking the pencil leads.

High speed arc interpolation

Drawing demo

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DSP_Core.pdf

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x1ted wrote 05/27/2022 at 19:37

Hello all. It seems she author doesn't respond to questions anymore. Please, if someone managed to get some practical information and has an advise on how to build this thing it will be very much appreciated. Please contact me or leave contact information and I will call (write) back. Thanks

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x1ted wrote 05/18/2022 at 22:29

Wow, amazing job! I have one question. Would it be possible to increase the voltage to 100 - 150V ? I have a few 100v ac , 1000w sanyo denky servos motors. Wondering if I can make them work?

I am impressed with the demos and your cnc build. Great job!

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imran majeed wrote 03/15/2021 at 22:53

Great project and I'm interested in it, Can you send me the Hex file code of the MCU (DSP)? Thank you very much

My email: imran.plus@gmail.com

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mrdong.microchip wrote 10/18/2020 at 12:25

Hello author! YuChong Li
I am very glad to see you having open source share for AC servo project. Would you please let me ask a few more questions
1, Can this project control different types of AC servos? for example Kasawa, Mitshubishi, panasonic, ... or just controlling a motor with code like your video?
2, Can you send me the Hex file code of the MCU (DSP)?
Thank you very much !
My email: huongtandong2009781@gmail.com

mrdong.microchip@gmail.com

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C4Labs wrote 10/22/2019 at 18:54

Where do you recommend I read more about controlling this board? Will the controller accept GCode?

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Alex wrote 02/14/2019 at 15:49

Hello looks very interesting. What is the current status? Are there now sources for the hardware Desigen and the PCB board. I would like to build such a controller. Thank you for the inspiration. Best regards

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gumush wrote 08/22/2018 at 12:17

Great project , and i'm interested in limiting torque and rotary angular velocity. Is there an option to limit rotation angular velocity ? And is that project finished ? Can we reproduce this pcb ?

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Morten Olsen wrote 03/06/2017 at 19:41

I can think of at least 10 projects who can benefit from this. Great job. I'm impressed!!

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Oskar Weigl wrote 01/17/2017 at 15:08

Hi, great work!

Is the hardware design also open source?

Cheers!

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Yuchong Li wrote 01/17/2017 at 17:33

Thanks Oskar!

Yes, the hardware design will be open source as well. But I', still tweaking the design. I'll post the design as soon as I finalize the design.

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Oskar Weigl wrote 01/17/2017 at 17:39

Cool! Is this reffering to the 1kw design, or Rev. F ?

Why not publish it with a note to describe that it is not finalised? ;D

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Yuchong Li wrote 01/20/2017 at 01:59

That's a good idea Oskar, I've posted the design documents for the power board and DSP board.

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Oskar Weigl wrote 01/21/2017 at 15:48

Cool! Thanks for sharing ;D

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Boris van Galvin wrote 01/11/2017 at 00:03

This would have to be one of the most satisfying demo videos i have seen all week, Totally impressed with the speed !

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Yuchong Li wrote 01/11/2017 at 01:03

Thanks!

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AKARIN Servo

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