Controlling 16 RC servo motors simultaneously

[RC servo]

Is there any C code for ATMEL's AVR micro controllers to read servo motor
position data from a serialport and control 16 RC servo motors
simultaneously?

 

[moocowmoo]

Is there any C code for ATMEL's AVR micro controllers to read servo motor
position data from a serialport and control 16 RC servo motors
simultaneously?

There is plenty of code out there for 8 channels. Why not use two AVRs?

Peter

 

[RC servo]

Thank you for the idea. Would you tell me where can I find C code for AVR to
drive 8 RC sermo motors?

 

[Edward Lee epl]

Thank you for the idea. Would you tell me where can I find C code for AVR to
drive 8 RC sermo motors?

Most AVRs include 8 A/D channels for reading the servo pos. However,
you would need external D/A to drive the motors. Your C codes depend
on your external hardware.

 

[SioL]

Most AVRs include 8 A/D channels for reading the servo pos. However,
you would need external D/A to drive the motors. Your C codes depend
on your external hardware.

Actually you need digital signals to drive the RD servo. No need for a D/A at all.

SioL

 

[Grant Edwards]

Most AVRs include 8 A/D channels for reading the servo pos. However,
you would need external D/A to drive the motors.

No, the servo-motors are controlled by a pulse train. You feed
them a stream of pulses, where each pulse is between 1 and 2 ms
wide, and the pulses repeat with about a 20ms period.

Your C codes depend on your external hardware.

You don't need external hardware. You just need to generate
digital pulses -- 5V logic levels should work fine.

 

[moocowmoo]

Thank you for the idea. Would you tell me where can I find C code for AVR to
drive 8 RC sermo motors?

Have a look at the Dontronics web site at
http://www.dontronics.com/8515.html.
This example is an 8 channel RC servo driver but it's written in assembler.
A little work would get that translated into C.

Peter

 

[Earl Bollinger]

The only one's I know of is using one of the www.newmicros.com ISOPOD's or
ServoPod's.
They run upwards of 23 servos no problem. They have code examples too. You
use the serial port to program and you can send commands to it if you
program it so.

You could also do it using some of the AWC
http://www.al-williams.com/pak8.htm
PAK-8 pulse out co-processors too.

 

[Earl Bollinger]

Have you tried asking this as www.avrfreaks.net?

 

[Dave VanHorn]

Have a look at the Dontronics web site at
http://www.dontronics.com/8515.html.
This example is an 8 channel RC servo driver but it's written in assembler.
A little work would get that translated into C.

It's easily extensible to 16 channels as is.
The servo positions are stored as data in ram, and there are interrupt
driven serial routines in the same package, so in the main loop it would be
trivial to parse out some language like S1=128 and stick the appropriate
value in ram for the next update.

 

[Anton]

Assembler code for controlling 16 servo's from an Atmel controller is
available at: http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200106/16csscnt.htm

Anton