A standard microcontroller based discrete-time PI for controlling the motion of a DC-gearmotor

Abstract

This paper shows how the INTEL © D8751H microcontroller can be used to control the motion of a DC-Gearmotor. One advantage of this design is that does not require external memory RAM/EPROM to perform the control of the motor. A precision potentiometer and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are used to measure the motor angular position. The ADC is driven by the ALE signal from the microcontroller; therefore an external signal clock is not required. In order to implement a discrete-time PI controller and a discrete-time filter, specific libraries were designed. Moreover, other libraries based on micro C® compiler, has been modified. Finally, experimental results show a good performance of the embedded system.