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Revision as of 22:25, 11 August 2013

Driving a servo motor is much like driving a car. Driving a car has many similarities including the key concepts of torque, velocity and position control. Most of this happens in the driver's head the same way than a servo drive does with a motor.

Driving (a.k.a servoing) a car

Carexample base.png

Driver as a controller

Low feedback gain, sluggish response

Carexample sluggish.png

Too high feedback gain, instability

Carexample unstablepng.png

Optimum feedback gain, performance

Carexample stable.png