Patent number: 8928271

Method and apparatus to convert a minimally controlled pulse stream into a proper mechatronic trajectory

Original Assignee: Teknic, Inc.

Field of technology: Vehicles, Engines and Transportation

Patent granted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015

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Abstract

An apparatus or method which accepts a burst of pulses at a frequency which may not be tightly controlled and converts this into a trajectory command that is a suitable motion profile for an incremental motor control application. The output of the invention can be a pulse stream that can be fed to an existing incremental pulse input motor drive or the invention can be embedded into a motor drive where its output is a numerical sequence that defines a physically realizable trajectory to be fed to the control circuits and software within the motor drive.