Proceedings of
International Conference On Advances In Electronics, Electrical And Computer Science Engineering EEC 2012
"A ZIGBEE BASED WIRELESS RECONFIGURABLE STEPPER MOTOR CONTROLLER USING FPGA"
Abstract: “This paper proposes a wireless stepper motor controller designed using Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and is implemented on DE0 Altera Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The proposed controller uses the Pulse- Width Modulation (PWM) technique to rotate the motor through the desired angle, speed and direction. Using the proposed controller it is possible to rotate the stepper motor precisely. In addition, the motor has been operated with a speed ranging from 5.625° per second to 20° per second in either clockwise or anticlockwise direction. Features such as manual rotation, to rotate the motor in directional mode, to pause the rotation, to execute the rotation with varying speed at desired region, return-to-zero, and zero position detection have been incorporated in the design. This proposed controller has been designed to operate wirelessly using Zigbee transreceiver module. More over the complete controller can be redesigned and realized in”
Keywords: Stepper Motor, Motion Control, Wireless reconfigurable