Now it’s official – as hobby project I’m going to build a servo motor based force feedback wheel to be used with racing simulation! As side project I’ll be thinking of how to make drives even better suited for this task.
This is all I’ve got now. Haven’t decided yet whether I’ll be using IONI or ARGON with the motor.
As I’m not throughly familiar with all the details, the first thing in is to gather information to get me started. If you wish to help, please share some useful FFB related links in the comments!
The motor is originally extracted from a Kuka industrial robot and the model is 1FK6100-8AF91-1ZZ9-Z S09. Similar ones can be found from Ebay by searching Kuka 1FK6. This one has been sent us by a friendly customer as exchange for configuring the motor.
It has resolver feedback device which is not directly supported by IONI, but I could figure out a solution if necessary.
Lets see how it goes :)
Awesome! I could not help replying on this post. keep up to great work, Tero.
Looking forward to hearing a good news from you soon.
Kewl
I’m an industrial electrician about to embark on the same project. I’ll be watching and if you need a bata tester hit me up
Hey Tero, nice to see that you get into this project! Here’s a link to a French forum with a bunch of great guys who will be happy to help you for sure, the more since you’re helping us to develop affordable solutions for our DIY work! You will find here a lot of different projects and different ways to build what they call “The RFR Wheel”, I would not be surprised if you already knew some of them:
link to the main page:
http://www.racingfr.com/forum/index.php?
link to the DIY Wheels page:
http://www.racingfr.com/forum/index.php?showforum=447
Unfortunatly, the majority of the forum is in French, but you will find some projects in English, including Beano’s, and his worthwhile realisation:
http://www.racingfr.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=49379
Thank you for the links and help! Much appreciated :)
Well the first problem you will face is that the projects that i know, mmos force feedback and the other french forum project is that you need an incremental encoder feedback to make it work, i got an akm 63m taking dust cause it has a resolver feedback :(
Well the first problem you will face is that the projects that i know mmos force feedback and the other french forum project is that you need an incremental encoder feedback to make it work, i got an akm 63m taking dust cause it has a resolver feedback :(
Later Argon FW has simulated encoder output inside drive (on 6 pin EXT conncetor). So it outputs motor position as quadrature representation even with resolver. Maybe it could be used?
If the controller sees it as incremental encoder, I don’t see why not. What kind of resolution will the simulated encoder output be capable of? Does it use interpolation?
Specs of simulated encoder output are here:
http://granitedevices.com/wiki/Argon_EXT_connector
I hope this helps!
Moro Tero,
See Florian’s post above, of course my nickname is ‘Beano’ who also posted my work log in the French forums.
Anyway, if you are interested, I can bring along one of my spare 5,000PPR (20,000 CPR) encoders, it should be quite easy for you to fit. It works very well on my servos.
Anyway, I can give you all the help and information you will need, let me know.
You have my email.
Kind regards,
Phillip (Austrlia)
Hi Tero,
If you’re interested, the FFB solution based on Arduino Leonardo and IONI I’ve already talked about in my email is presented here (in English) :
http://forum.virtualracing.org/showthread.php/97461-DIY-FFB-Wheel-based-on-Arduino-Leonardo
The original post in French is here :
http://www.racingfr.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=49848&st=0#entry1581751
Tero-
Hi. I’ve been following this post with a great deal of interest. I believe there is a good bit of potential here in the home flight simulator market. I actually have a REAL Boeing 737 cockpit in my garage that I have converted into a flight simulator and about to embark on the control loading part.
I would love to see some support for this. Of particular interest would be the ability to close the force loop with a low cost load cell. I have quite a bit of background in this so please don’t hesitate to reach out and I can give you some ideas :-)….
Cheers,
Matt
Hello,
I have a motor which used to be a part of a Kuka robot arm. Its model no is the same (1FK6100-8AF91-1ZZ9-ZS09). I’m looking for a servo drive for this motor. Do you have servo drives fitting this motor?
Hello,
Can someone suggest a servo drive fitting this motor?