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Add current and voltage feed forward terms to motor classes

Open Copper280z opened this issue 9 months ago • 2 comments

This change adds feed forward terms for the voltage and current controllers. This allows including inputs using system parameters and knowledge not available to the PID controllers to improve performance.

Some examples of use cases might be using the moving inertia with an S-curve motion profile to calculate the torque (current) required to follow the profile. Without feed forward, following error depends solely on the PID controller, with feed forward the PID controller is only responsible for compensating unmodeled disturbances. Another example would be using a motor to resist a known load, like gravity, or a spring, while in angle or velocity control mode. This currently would depend on the PID controller to compensate for the load, but because the load is well known it can be calculated directly. The response of the system to predicable changes in this load no longer depends on the PID controller bandwidth.

This change still needs testing, but I wanted to get it out there while I had a chance. :)

Copper280z avatar Feb 22 '25 18:02 Copper280z

Hey @Copper280z thanks so much. This looks great, and I will merge it right after doing the 2.3.5 release. Its an important change, and we'll also have to update the docs accordingly, so I don't want to rush it for this release if that's ok?

runger1101001 avatar Feb 24 '25 11:02 runger1101001

That’s totally fine by me, I’d rather have more testing time than less before it’s released.

Copper280z avatar Feb 24 '25 18:02 Copper280z

We've released v2.3.5 so I have merged this now...

runger1101001 avatar Jul 28 '25 19:07 runger1101001