GoTo(ABS_POS) error during motor running

Question

Posted on September 03, 2014 at 09:59Hello!In my application I send GoTo(ABS_POS) commands when stepper motor is running at constant speed, when BUSY flag is high, so I'm sure that the target speed is reached. And everything is going well most of time, but sometimes (maybe 5-10% of total number of commands send) GoTo(ABS_POS) coommand acts like GoTo_DIR(DIR, ABS_POS)  command but with ''wrong'' direction and motor makes all 2^22 steps in opposite direction. So, GoTo(ABS_POS) doesn't act like a positioning in a shortest way. I have checked real signals many times to be sure that adrress of command is 0x60, not 0x68, one can see on attached picture.Are there any suggestions why this can happen and how one can avoid such problem?

spelger · Answer

Posted on September 03, 2014 at 18:11i don't have an answer for you but the Run() command takes a direction and speed (i assume this is how you got to a constant speed). depending on the position of the motor when Run() was issued (and direction used) and the position when the GoTo() is issued i can see how the motor might move in a different direction that what you expect.  for test purposes you might want to retrieve the position before Run() and the position before GoTo() to see if the 5-10% wrong directions correlate with the positions found. hope it helps, scott

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