InstaSPIN Workshops

Hi Denis,

I'll pass your information on to Portland sales.  We actually don't have anything specific planned for NW USA anytime soon.  We have been doing 1-day workshops throughout China/Taiwan, have a "Sensorless Control for Three-Phase Electric Machines using InstaSPIN™ and Model Based Design Workshops" planned for June and July in Germany, and have a short 2hr hands on workshop for Dallas in July.

Are you more insterested in InstaSPIN-FOC (sensorless torque and speed) or InstaSPIN-MOTION (sensorless speed or sensored speed and position)?

Thanks Chris,

InstaSPIN, encoded speed and position.

I'll watch and listen for the date and time for the Dallas, hands-on work shop.  

Last question.  I need the link and part number for the latest InstaSPIN-Motion design kit.  The kit I looked at addressed 750W applications.  My applications, 80 / 20, are under 100W.  

Single button tuning ... this I have to see!   A local TI sales rep would be helpful.  Denis

Denis,

Please see the tools here:

http://www.ti.com/ww/en/mcu/instaspin/tools_software.shtml

What is the current range of your 100W motors?  I'm assuming you are mostly 24V/4A?  48V/2A?

For our sensorless versions of InstaSPIN it is critical to scale all HW to meet your needs. If you have 12V motors and use our kits with 66V scaling it's an issue. 

With sensored InstaSPIN-MOTION (as long as you aren't using our sensorless observer for redundancy or some of the special features like Motor ID or rotor alignment - which we do in the labs we include for sensored control) it doesn't really matter (though you should scale your own HW design well).

We have two low voltage kits that can work with sensored InstaSPIN-MOTION (Postion or Velocity). Both of these incldue our InstaSPIN-MOTION (and InstaSPIN-FOC) enabled F28069M device on a controlCARD (which includes isolated JTAG emulation, IDE, and everything else you need)

• DRV8312-69M-KIT
  • 50V/3.5A continuous, voltage is scaled to 66V
  • 24V/2.5A power supply included
  • Motor included only has hall sensors
  • You can add LVSERVOMTR which has encoder
    • If you use motors with encoders with this kit you must provide a separate 5V supply to the DRV8312 board to power the encoder adequately enough
    • or your own motor of course
• DRV8301-69M-KIT
  • 60V/40A continuous, voltage is scaled to 66V
  • No power supply included
  • No motor included
  • You can use LVSERVOMTR or 2MTR-DYNO (two of the LVSERVOMTR + Frame Mount  + shaft coupling)
  • or your own motor of course

We have a very nice inverter called BOOSTXL-DRV8301 for only $49. Right now this is only supported by LAUNCHXL-F28027F , a controller platform that only support InstaSPIN-FOC.  But don't worry, this summer we will have an F28069M LaunchPad which will plug in...and includes Encoder support.  This will make for a very nice, low cost, small form factor embedded servo controller.

Right now to use Position control you have to work your way through the MotorWare projects.  These build incrementally from Motor ID (proj_Lab2x), torque & PI speed loop tuning, inertia/friction ID, SpinTAC single variable speed loop tuning, using the Trajectory generation, using state machine Planning (proj_lab5x), adding an encoder (proj_lab12x), SpinTAC single variable combined postion+speed loop tuning (proj_lab13x).

Install MotorWare, then run

C:\ti\motorware\motorware_1_01_00_12\MotorWare.exe

and you'll see all the resources.

The InstaSPIN Projects & Lab UG is what you want to read...

Also, we'll have a motion control expert at the Milwaukee Motion Control Seminar in May...if you're going he'd be happy to meet with you.  Bring your motor :)