Hello!
I’ve started working with the PAC5xxxEVK1 to set up and run motors, with the goal of eventually developing my own hardware based on the PAC5xxx IC. I’ve watched the first two videos titled “Setup and First Run” and “BEMF Sensorless/Sensored BLDC FW & GUI.” At the end of the second video, it mentions a follow-up video explaining how to use the GUI parameters to run and control a motor, but I haven’t been able to find that video anywhere. Do you know where I might find it? Also, are there any other tutorials or resources available on this topic? Thanks!
We don’t have any video in hand, working on few, will share after. Please let us know what EVK you are trying to use, motor you have in hand, how about the IDE (tools, Keil, IAR or Eclipse etc). Are you interested in FOC or six step control. It will help if give more details about the project and scope of it, will help us to gauge your needs, thanks.
Thank you for your reply.
Before diving into the details, I’d like to mention that I followed the PDF guides on working with the firmware and GUI, and was able to get everything up and running. I successfully built the firmware, flashed it to the PAC using an ST-Link (which required some workarounds compared to the Segger J-Link, but it worked in the end), launched the GUI, entered my motor parameters, and spun up the motor. I also managed to fine-tune the control parameters for better speed and torque control.
Now, I’d like to use the Auto Tuning feature mentioned in the tutorial. I know how and where to enable it in the code, but I don’t see any Auto Tuning tab in the GUI, even though the tutorial indicates that it should be there.
Could you provide some guidance on this?
I’m using the latest FOC and GUI version 4.5.0.
Here are the details of my setup:
- EVK: PAC55723EVK1 Evaluation Kit
- Motors: Small surface-mounted PMSMs, controlled using the FOC algorithm with MTPA (Id = 0)
- IDE: Eclipse.
Please let me know if you need any other information. Thanks.