Tutorial SMC3 Arduino 3DOF Motor Driver and Windows Utilities

I found the Event logs but not sure how to make sense of all this, what am I looking for?

One other thing I should mention is when it is not working I open the device manage and the Arduino is still there listed under com12 as normal with no warning or anything beside it.

@RufusDufus

did you consider an Arduino with more pins so you can run 6 or more actuators ?

regards

This worked great now feedback reaches limit levels for clip and motor cut - (I changed to 1.5 scale range suit my setup) - Thanks

Hi everyone. I'm a new forum member. congratulations for the works, they're amazing. After years i decide to begin my 2dof project. I'm not very smart with arduino and coding in general...
I'm trying to follow the guides of this forum, but a i'm little bit confused.
My setup consist in:
-Arduino Uno;
-2x Monster MotorShield;
-2x Psu HP 600pb 575W:
-2x Bosch wiper motor.

My intent is to use 1 motorshield for each motor.
These are the connection that i made:

Arduino -------- Monster Moto 1
2 (Motor 1 H-Bridge ENA) ---------------7 and 8 (INA1 and INB1)
3 (Motor 1 H-Bridge ENB)----------------4 and 9 (INA2 and INB2)
9 (Motor 1 PWM) --------------------------5 and 6 (PWM1 and PWM2)
Arduino -------- Monster Moto 2
4 (Motor 2 H-Bridge ENA) ---------------7 and 8 (INA1 and INB1)
5 (Motor 2 H-Bridge ENB)----------------4 and 9 (INA2 and INB2)
10 (Motor 2 PWM) --------------------------5 and 6 (PWM1 and PWM2)

Furthermore i connected the two potentiometer to A0 and A1 with the relative supplies.

The code loaded on the arduino is the SMC.ino v1.0.

now, when i turn on, nothing happens.

Where did I go wrong? I forgot something?

Thankyou in advance for the precious help.

Hello everyone!
I have done all the configurations of smc3 and i am using ibt 2 motor driver. But the problem is that motor is moving only in one direction, it stops when the feedback changes.
TIA.

Thanks @noorbeast for the reply.
i am using wheelchair motor(CM808-075A) and IBT2 controller.

before SMC3, i checked the driver and motor by applying simple Arduino code for IBT2 and everything was working fine.
i am new here.
i follow the instructions for SMC3 and in the result my motor is working but only in one direction.

looking forward for the help

TIA.

Hi noorbeast, Thank you very much for the reply.
Sorry to just pick up now, but I've been out on business.
Yesterday i tried to follow your suggestion; the problem was the motor's ground isolation. Now them move.

I will now proceed with the next steps and keep you updated on developments.

Hey noorbeast,
Thank you for the reply.

I just review my system again and found the problem that was related to my motor driver.
My IBT2 was not working properly.
I bought a new IBT2 and everthing is working fine.

I am facing another problem that i would like to share with you.
I am trying to operate simtools and simhub simultaneously by using LFS and demo version of simtools. But both of them are not working at the same time.
I guess this problem is related to some kind of port conflict. When i tried to patch the game using simtools, it updates the cfg file of LFS and by fixing the LFS in simhub, it update the cfg file according to simhub configuration and simtools not getting the values.

It will be honor for me @noorbeast if you please resolve my problem.

Looking forward for your kind response.

TIA

@noorbeast ,
Actullay, I'm not familiar with port forwarding.
Well you please tell me that how i can use the port forwarding or reffer to the tutorial?

TIA

Hi Noorbeast,
i've a new problem...
I've done several tests but the issue I'm facing seems to be not connected to a bad wiring.
Now when I turn on the system the motors move but after a short rotation they stop(both pot are connected to the motors).
As I try to move whatever pot manually it doesn't do anything. The motors seem to be stuck.
I debugged the feedback positions in arduino monitor and found out that those have not reached the limit values set in the code.
In details:
-Motor1 moved from 512 to 214
-Motor2 moved from 512 to 771
(both pot were initially set to middle position).

Moreover when I run Simtools the motors do not move.

any suggestion?
thank you in advance.

Hi noorbeast,
the motor are ground isolated and rotate freely in either direction if directly connected to the power (pots disconnected).
Settings attached below.

Thankyou

No, when the motors stop don't receive current. The PSUs are ok, I measure both at 12V.

I made more tests and i noticed that, unplugging the pots to the motors, all seems to work properly.

I've a question: is it normal that when I power on the system the motors spin without me giving any commands?

Note: I didn't modified the .ino code.

Thankyou.