Pypilot Motor speed Control

[karthikpraveen.ezy@gmail.com]

Hello,

I am working on the below Proof of concept for Pypilot motor Control.

Raspberry pi 4 (Having Pypilot, Open Plotter) connected with Arduino UNO that connects with Motor controller.

I have procured the BLDC Motor controller and BLDC motor from Aliexpress and the details given below. I am unclear to how customize the motor.ino file for this configuration. Also, I could not understand the correct pwm style from the given Motor Controller specification.

However, when i connected Arduino UNO (Standlone - without Pypilot) with Motor Controller, i am able to control the Motor using Analog Pot (Arduino UNO pin 9 - Motor Controller signal Pin, Arduino UNO ADC pin A0 - Analog POT) with the following sketch.

Please give some input to customize the motor.ino to control the motor per this configuration.

Arduino sketch (Standlone Arduino- without Pypilot):
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int motorPin = 9;      // Motor connected to digital pin 9
//int val = 0;         // variable to store the read value

void setup() {
  pinMode(motorPin, OUTPUT);  // sets the pin as output
}

void loop() {
  val = analogRead(A0);  // read the input pin
  analogWrite(motorPin, (val/4)); // (val/4)analogRead values go from 0 to 1023, analogWrite values from 0 to 255
  Serial.println(val);
  Serial.println("WELCOME");
}



Motor Controller:
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Motor Details
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[seandepagnier]

The motor controller can output a PWM in rc servo style to control a brushless controller such as drone type esc. I think the type you are using is for a scooter so it instead takes an analog input. This is not supported but.. in theory you could modify motor.ino to output a pwm from 0-100% duty, then put a lowpass filter on this to make it analog to feed to that controller.

But, first, pypilot generally controls the rudder not motor speed, so is that motor moving the rudder?


I do plan to support vector thrust and many possible custom configurations in the future but it's not implemented yet.

[karthikpraveen.ezy@gmail.com]

The motor controller can output a PWM in rc servo style to control a brushless controller such as drone type esc.   I think the type you are using is for a scooter so it instead takes an analog input.    This is not supported but.. in theory you could modify motor.ino to output a pwm from 0-100% duty, then put a lowpass filter on this to make it analog to feed to that controller.  

But, first, pypilot generally controls the rudder not motor speed, so is that motor moving the rudder?


I do plan to support vector thrust and many possible custom configurations in the future but it's not implemented yet.