Open loop Motion control

Choose the motor type:

BLDC motors Stepper motors

Choose the voltage control type:

Position control Velocity control

SimpleFOClibrary gives you the choice of using 2 different open-loop control strategies, control strategies that do not require a position sensor

• Velocity open-loop control
• Position open-loop control

Index search uses also uses open-loop velocity control, but has some additional parameters, see index search

You set the open-loop modes by changing the motor.controller variable. If you want to control the motor angle you will set the controller to MotionControlType::angle_openloop and if you want to control motor angular velocity MotionControlType::velocity_openloop.

// MotionControlType::velocity_openloop    - velocity open-loop control
// MotionControlType::angle_openloop       - position open-loop control
motor.controller = MotionControlType::angle_openloop;

For more information about the source code implementation of the motion control strategies check the library source code documentation