Motion Control System With Practice-Based Implementation

The purpose of this thesis was to demonstrate motion control system both generally and in detail with a model as an illustration. The thesis was commissioned by Autotech Machinery JSC. The main goal of the thesis was to gain a deep understanding about motion control theoretically and to apply that knowledge into electrical designing and programming for an actual machine as a practical project. Motion control is used with motors which include a servo motor, a stepper motor and a linear motor, to provide mechanism movements in a controlled manner. In order to make that happen, drivers and controllers are needed. All of the above are mentioned in the theory part of the thesis. At the same time, a machine called PF Appearance Checking Unit, commissioned by Autotech Machinery JSC, which has a stepper and a servo motor, a cylinder and many other electrical components is the field project to illustrate what I had learnt theoretically and how I applied those to work on a project. The servo motor moves the camera to a predetermined position, then the stepper motor rotates the cylinder-stabled products for the vision system to check the quality. When the quality checking is done, the cylinder moves backward for the products to be removed. It is the result of a project the company did for a customer. I was in charge of selecting electrical components, electrical drawing, wiring, and programming code. The PF Appearance Checking Unit’s purpose is to represent the main unit which is a quality checking unit of a fully automated machine which will be built in the future where there will be a supply unit, a quality checking unit and a finishing unit. The goal of the thesis was to extend the knowledge of motors and motion control both theoretically and practically. Web-based research, literature and research papers were used for the theoretical part of the thesis. For the practical part, the documents on the programming code of the machine which are attached as an appendix indicate the method, the process and the result of my field work