Arduino Servo Motor Controller

It makes careful use of timers.

Arduino servo motor controller.

Connecting the servo motor to the arduino. As a result s ervo motors are used to control the position of objects rotate objects move legs arms or hands of robots move sensors etc. The goal of this project is to intro. For most servos a 1 ms pulse results in a zero degree rotation a 1 5 ms pulse results in a 90 degree rotation and a 2 ms pulse results in a 180 degree rotation.

Because servo motors use feedback to determine the position of the shaft you can control that position very precisely. The guts of a servo motor is shown in the following picture. Connect this to the arduino gnd. Connect the power cable that in all standards should be red to 5v on the arduino.

Following are the steps to connect a servo motor to the arduino. Allows arduino genuino boards to control a variety of servo motors. On the arduino due you can control up to 60 servos. The servo motor has a female connector with three pins.

Now let s see how to use an arduino to control a servo motor. The basics and composition of an sg90 will be explored and the application of several servo codes and applications will be given for another type of servo motor the mg90s. You can connect small servo motors directly to an arduino to control the shaft position very precisely. The library can control 12 servos using only 1 timer.

One is for power 5volts ground and the white wire is the control wire. You can also see the 3 wires that connect to the outside world. The darkest or even black one is usually the ground. The servo expects one pulse every 20 ms.

This library can control a great number of servos.