Encoded Motor With Arduino 

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Nikodem, you're sooo diverse! It's always fun to see what you're tinkering with each video! Your projects always intrigue and impress me! Keep up the great explorations and work!

I doubt that anyone will ever see this post, but I had to write one because this video is the BEST I have seen regarding this subject. I have been looking for this solution for over 6 years now and came across it just now. Every other video on YT does not use position control with DC/encoder control(closed loop). Seems they all like steppers. There is no better way than this method for position control at a very inexpensive solution. I was a CNC tech for over 25 years, and this method was used long ago on industrial machining centers. Thank you very much for this project!

Quality of your videos is really getting better! Keep up the good work!

Great tutorial. This is precisely how I want to control my droid dome rotation. Remote controllable and automated. Thank you for all your research. Gotta get myself a 12v dc motor with encoder now. ;)

Nice tutorial! My actual project for agriculture uses a sensor hall or a reed switch to control a peristaltic pump. The "IN" is the wheel speed. It uses a 12V, 36W windshield motor and a IRF1404 “as driver” (plus a diode and resistors for protection).

Great explanation of how an encoder works! 0:53

SOOOOOOO nice. Love the way you've summed it all up.

I think you should zoom in on the code when you're explaining it, now it's a bit hard to see on a computer and on mobile it's impossible. Otherwise cool video!

That background music is really chilling, I like it.

Excellent production quality!

this is completly underated thx man

U saved my life mate! Thank you

Huge thanks! It was useful for me

nice editing man, i like this.

NIcely done! I'm curious about your inclusion of the PID library. Are you using that to accomplish smooth acceleration/deceleration of your motor? Cheers

clearly explained, thank you !

Easy and good explained, worth a follow :)

Thanks yo, Wish you all the best

Nice and useful product. I liked it.

Do you have a correct circuit diagram for this? The link you included for the motor has a harness with the wires in a different color order than the motor in your video. The colors do not match your fritz diagram.

Awesome video. Thank you!

Excellent tutorial. Thanks

cool and very nicely and clearly explained.

thanks, this really helped me

Thank you for sharing this information with us. I have a question about checking the position when the tree has to stand still. How you manage this and how you implemented the sw to do it.

Great video and thank you for the time you invest in these videos. It would be great if you could explain the wiring a bit more too. "Here is the motor... it has 6 wires" - what are those six wires for? My motor has 2 power wires and 4 encoder wires, so it looks different and has different colors but has the same functionality. If you explained what the wires are for, it will help others with different motors to also understand the wiring better.... like myself :-) But thank you again

it ok for wheel but for a turret we have to know the zero so what kind of sensor allow angle feedback

Tnx on video, keep them coming :)

Great video, all works well. Would like to put a micro switch to set the 0 point on start up. do you have any videos on that?

Thanks for a great video! I'd like to ask a newbie question. Would it be possible to use a quadcopter ESC flashed with BLHELI firmware, as a motor driver for such precise control of a BLDC motor with encoder?

Hi, do you think is it possible to do a open loop test in order to get a mathematical model of the motor? The test is simply to put a voltage at input and measure the speed output, and of course to hold the data. Thanks

hi first of all good work on the video very well made! i am thinking to introduce this motor into my project (replacing my stepper motor) my question is since my motor will have some load on the shaft would you suggest e a better motor driver in terms of heating and idle power handling? for example for the stepper i'm using a tmc 2208 wich drops power up to 20% when idle...hope to hear from you soon keep up the good work!

Very good visuals

Can I use the Arduino to compare vibration levels of different cd players ect? If so, is it as simple as placing the Arduino sensor on the cd player chassis and also using a multimeter to get the reading?

Hi, thank you for the video! Do you know where i can found this motor's datasheet? I need some values like resistance, inductance, moment of inertia...

How make control without potentiometer, I want use other encoder to control the servo in this project.

Do you have a scematic layout for the setup without potentiometer using the digital input, or is the potentiometer still there?

Hi! I am a fan of your youtube channel, because they are easy to follow. Can you provide a schematic drawing for the wiring when using Arduino uno instead of nano?

Can you please tell me what type of rotary encoders I need for air manager and how I can connect each I strument to encoders to turn ? Thank you. I told many how made it in youtube but they never told me

Great video!

Hi, nice video, how did you manage the motor with the serial monitor? Thanks

are you doing research for weather to buy larger stepper motors or servo motors for your large cnc

Thank you for sharing this video. Have you used the LM393 speed sensor with a DC motor? I am facing a problem with this sensor because it overcounts every time when I use interrupts. Can you please make a video on it?

Great video! If I understand correctly, the encoder you ultimately used will tell you relative position, not absolute position, is that right? In other words, if you turn the arduino off and then on again, it will think that the current motor position is "0"?

nice job!! quick question, how would you have figured out the gear ratio if the motor you have wasn't documented?

Hello there, can I control dc motor with encoder by 2 line the first one is pulses for steps and the second one is (0,1)for direction?

Hello great video. One question though, I try to type 0 into the serial monitor after typing in 1000 and it won’t go back to 0, do you know why that would be? Thankyou

excellent and subscribed!

it could be possible to do a reverse engineer that method to build a DRO for Manual Mill?

Sorry if I'm a beginner. I want to ask, is this the same as the stepper? Can i set the motor to only rotate 2x (for example) ?

Thanks for shareing the core. I was not familiar with coding and I was tring to use the STM32 MAPLE BOARD insted using arduino nano. I just going to change some pin number, But it not work...... the encoded can show up to 7 or some number, then the loop was dead. Any ider with that? Thanks.

You will have a bit of a problem with i2c. The problem will be the interrupt - you will need to make sure you can read pulses while communicating over i2c... What's the problem of using serial instead of i2c, btw? Misun wrote a nice servo controller already for arduino, esp8266 and I modded it for ATtiny85, perhaps check that one out for inspiration ;) Nice work, btw. Good luck.

hello sir can I do it without using potentiometer ?

hello, this tutorial is quite helpful. thanks for your great effort! I have brought a DC geared motor. it's kinda different than the one you have used but I believe it would serve the same purpose especially that it has the same exact encoder. I was wondering if I could use it on my Arduino mega without a motor drive. please help me! thanks in advance.

In your code, you’d be much better off defining a constant for each dio pin e.g. MotorSense = 3; Not only does it make your code easier to read, and less likely to make mistakes, but if you ever changed pin, you only need to change the code in one place.

Thank you!

2:54 where to buy an encoder like that without the motor? I have 2 peg prego dc motors that I want to put an encoder.

02:25 I have the same motor from a printer. Do you know by any chance where can I get its datasheet?

How did you connect the encoder's wires?

what pid library are you using ?

You need more zoom on code display and a little more explanation code plz btw Fantastic Video Thanks Great Job

Are going to make a video about how to implement this method to a robot with two wheels? I need to learn how to control two motors in synch on my project. Thank you

Hello my friend. I have the same small engine in the video. but I do not know the wiring diagram. I will only use the encoder. Can you help me?

Hi. I'm new at this. Can you tell me where each color wires go? It's hard to see from your pic. I have same 6 color wires. Tks in advance.

I like it. Could this be made as a drop in replacement for a stepper motor?

project gonna be opensource?

I connect a 12v encoder motor instead of 6v when I move the potentiometer ligermanet the motor does not respond and keeps rolling why? I send position in serial plotter and nothing it still rolling -85 -87 -88 -90 -92 -93 -95 -97 -99 -100 -102 -104 -106 -108 -111

Great tutorial, I try to run the code with the same setup for both knob and serial, but the motor doesn't seems to run correctly. The motor just run at one direction and with constants speed, even when I turn the potentiometer left to right, or the otherway around. Same thing with the serial version, the motor just run at constants speed to different number I typed in. The motor I have is slightly different than the one you have, but the encoder is the same specs, same color cables with 11 signals for 1 turn. Do you know why? is it because of this line where I have to tune? pos_pid.tune(20, 0, 200); Thanks

Is it like stepper motor can use it in cnc

i have same small printer motor with encoder. but i dont know what is the cable order. how can i learn which cable is signal which is gnd which is v5 ??? pleasee helppp

How do you keep the position of the motor same on startup? for example if it is in a robot arm then how do you know the absolute location of the arm on startup. Wont the position be different every time the robot boots up?

I pulled up the DC Motor w/ Encoder that you provided a link to in the video's details and compared it to the Fritzing diagram you displayed (3:19), and the wiring you suggested does not make sense to me. In particular: Why are we connecting the motor's white "Quad encoder B signal'" wire (see Amazon's pictures) to the negative motor terminal of the driver?

Thnx for this

is there already a library avalible?

good work

H there! That was such a masterpiece XD. Thank you very much. Just a question: where could I download the PID Library? Best wishes and good luck :)

suggestion for a new video of a cnc router with this motor and encoder

Can we control position of motor using L293 motor controller??

When using the 2nd version of the code without potentiometer, do you just remove the potentiometer from the wiring schematic?

Hello, can you tell me the name of the motor controller? Regards

Thanks. Can you share me PID controller library?

hello，How to use an encoder to control the position of the DC motor？

Hey there, l have seen your videos were really superb but what l actually want is how to control the position of the encoder by using arduino , lcd display to see the position visually, keypad to type degree , potentiometer for lcd display voltage up and down and h-bridge to control high voltage using low voltage . Please let me know if you upload a video basing my project please help me

Good but what pid library are you using ?

super project..

My code was working fine but then one fine day when i give a serial input value of 555 the encoder rotates to 5555 idk shy this happens but for any value i give the motor turns to times 10 of the given value. Can anyone tell me what to do?

what is value 3740.1??

I came across this video after having successfully made a project exactly like the one you mentioned 1st, with the potenciometer. However, I tried doing something using serial comm as the source of the target position, but anytime I connect the powered motor driver to the arduino, serial comm doesnt work. I'm left disconnecting the driver anytime I want to type a number in serial comm. All the grounds have a single common ground point, so it's not a grounding issue. A friend suggested it might be electrical noise from the m.driver interfering with the arduino, what dya think? Thanks

Sorry, but I couldn't find right code in your repository. Can you say me file's name for Encoder, please! Thanks a lot for good video

if you also connect AS5600 contactless angle sensor check

i can't get it to stop spinning. I can get it to go forward and backwards but it will not stop any help?

please use a bigger font on IDE bro! nice video

I have a problem, if I have a motor with encoder but it handles a voltage of 24 volts, which model of H-bridge can I use?

What program do you use to 3D printer designs?

hi.. i'm a student taking course computer of engineering can i ask a help for my project ? i dont know how run this dc motor using motor control shield :( i really need help

Hi sir can you please make a vedio on home made servo motor I have some Idea by it is not working please help

Could you share link to PIDController library?

I can’t find the code shown from attachment. The only using PID is 168 lines contrast yours is 40.

I have the same motor but there are five white cables.