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ARDUINO SIMPLE FIELD ORIENTED CONTROL (FOC) PROJECT





We live in very exciting times 😃! BLDC motors are entering the hobby community
more and more and many great projects have already emerged leveraging their far
superior dynamics and power capabilities. BLDC motors have numerous advantages
over regular DC motors but they have one big disadvantage, the complexity of
control. Even though it has become relatively easy to design and manufacture
PCBs and create our own hardware solutions for driving BLDC motors the proper
low-cost solutions are yet to come. One of the reasons for this is the apparent
complexity of writing the BLDC driving algorithms, Field oriented control (FOC)
being an example of one of the most efficient ones. The solutions that can be
found on-line are almost exclusively very specific for certain hardware
configuration and the microcontroller architecture used. Additionally, most of
the efforts at this moment are still channeled towards the high-power
applications of the BLDC motors and proper low-cost and low-power FOC supporting
boards are very hard to find today and even may not exist.
Therefore this is an attempt to:

 * 🎯 Demystify FOC algorithm and make a robust but simple Arduino library:
   Arduino SimpleFOClibrary
   * Support as many motor + sensor + current sense + driver + mcu combinations
     out there
 * 🎯 Develop a modular FOC supporting BLDC driver boards:
   * NEW 📢: Minimalistic BLDC driver (<3Amps) : SimpleFOCMini .
   * Low-power gimbal driver (<5Amps) : Arduino SimpleFOCShield .
   * Medium-power BLDC driver (<30Amps): Arduino SimpleFOCPowerShield .

> NEW RELEASE 📢: SimpleFOClibrary v2.3.2 see release
> 
>  * Improved space vector modulation code thanks to @Candas1
>  * Bugfix for stepper motor initialization
>  * Bugfix for current sensing when only 2 phase currents available - please
>    re-check your current sense PID tuning
>  * Bugfix for teensy3.2 - #321
>  * Added teensy3/4 compile to the github CI using platformio
>  * Fix compile issues with recent versions of ESP32 framework
>  * Add ADC calibration on STM32 MCUs thanks to @Candas1
>  * Bugfix for crash when using ADC2 on ESP32s - thanks to @mcells
>  * Bugfix for renesas PWM on UNO R4 WiFi - thanks to @facchinm
>  * And more bugfixes - see the complete list of 2.3.2 fixes and PRs


ARDUINO SIMPLEFOCLIBRARY V2.3.1

This video demonstrates the Simple FOC library basic usage, electronic
connections and shows its capabilities.


FEATURES

 * Easy install:
   * Arduino IDE: Arduino Library Manager integration
   * PlatformIO
 * Open-Source: Full code and documentation available on github
 * Goal:
   * Support as many sensor + motor + driver + current sense combination as
     possible.
   * Provide the up-to-date and in-depth documentation with API references and
     the examples
 * Easy to setup and configure:
   * Easy hardware configuration
   * Each hardware component is a C++ object (easy to understand)
   * Easy tuning the control loops
   * SimpleFOCStudio configuration GUI tool
   * Built-in communication and monitoring
 * Cross-platform:
   * Seamless code transfer from one microcontroller family to another
   * Supports multiple MCU architectures:
     * Arduino: UNO, MEGA, DUE, Leonardo, Nano, UNO R4, MKR ….
     * STM32
     * ESP32
     * Teensy
     * many more …


ARDUINO SIMPLEFOCSHIELD V2.0.4


FEATURES

 * Plug & play: In combination with Arduino SimpleFOClibrary - github
 * Low-cost: Price of €15 - Check the pricing
 * In-line current sensing: Up to 3Amps/5Amps bidirectional
   * configurable: 3.3Amps - 3.3V adc, 5Amps - 5V adc
 * Integrated 8V regulator:
   * Enable/disable by soldering pads
 * Max power 120W - max current 5A, power-supply 12-35V
   * Designed for Gimbal motors with the internal resistance >10 Ωs.
 * Stackable: running 2 motors in the same time
 * Encoder/Hall sensors interface: Integrated 3.3kΩ pullups (configurable)
 * I2C interface: Integrated 4.7kΩ pullups (configurable)
 * Configurable pinout: Hardware configuration - soldering connections
 * Arduino headers: Arduino UNO, Arduino MEGA, STM32 Nucleo boards…
 * Open Source: Fully available fabrication files - how to make it yourself

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS BOARD AS A PRODUCT, FIND MORE INFORMATION ON THIS
LINK: ARDUINO SIMPLEFOCSHIELD




ALTERNATIVE FOC SUPPORTING PROJECTS

These are just a few of the alternative FOC supporting projects which provide
hardware and software solutions.

OdriveTrinamicInfineonFOC-Arduino-Brushless✔️ Open Source❌ Open Source✔️ Open
Source(recently)✔️ Open Source✔️Simple to use✔️ Simple to use✔️Simple to use❌
Simple to use❌ Low cost ($100)❌ Low cost ($100)✔️Low cost ($40)✔️ Low cost❌ Low
power (>50A)✔️ Low power✔️ Low power✔️ Low power❌ Stepper support❌ Stepper
support❌ Stepper support❌ Stepper support

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