Firmware/FiveD on Arduino
Revision as of 05:43, 28 February 2010 by Triffid hunter (talk | contribs) (split constant acceleration to new page)
Rewrite of FiveD firmware for the atmega168-based Arduino by Triffid Hunter
This firmware is loosely based on the official FiveD Firmware, however it uses 100% integer math, and works very hard to minimize/eliminate long math operations in interrupt context.
Constant Acceleration
The official FiveD firmware changes speed by a fixed amount each step, however this also alters the step time. acceleration = dv/dt, so with a fixed dv but a changing dt, acceleration changes during a move. This makes high speeds quite unattainable as the acceleration quickly outstrips the motor's ability to keep up.
FiveD on Arduino contains a constant acceleration implementation.
