Servo motor

[NapDynamite]

Hi, 

I have Hitec standard size servo motor which I want to control using sbRIO-9636. The specifications of this servo motor are:

• Voltage: 4.8-6.0 Volt
• Direction: Clockwise/ Pulse Traveling 1500-1900usec at 50Hz.

I need to control the position of servo motor's arm by sending it PWM signals from sbRIO's DIO. I need some assistance how would I generate PWM that would move the servo according to angle I set over front panel. 

Regards.

[cschneider]

Hi,

never worked with a RIO, but there is a White Paper of NI showing how to generate different signal forms: https://forums.ni.com/t5/Example-Code/NI-LabVIEW-RIO-Evaluation-Kit-Additional-Examples/ta-p/3983750

Perhaps this helps. However, depending on what you try to do, you can try to use an Arduino microcontroller which can directly generate a PWM output signal without consuming time on your FPGA...depends on how time-critical your application is.

Hope this helps, 

Christian