DC motor interfacing with PIC18F4550 microcontroller
It
is easy to control the speed of a DC motor using PIC18F4550
microcontroller since this microcontroller has a CCP module to generate a
PWM signal, and by varying the duty cycle of the PWM signal the power
delivered to the motor will also vary which causes the speed to change.
This topic shows how to make a DC motor speed controller using
PIC18F4550 where a potentiometer is used to control motor speed.If you need to see how to use potentiometer with PIC18F4550 visit the following topic:
PIC18F4550 ADC example with CCS PIC C compiler
If you need to see how to use PIC18F4550 PWM module signal visit the following topic:
PIC18F4550 PWM example using CCS PIC C
DC Motor speed control with PIC18F4550 circuit:
To control the speed of a DC motor only one transistor is needed, in this project an N-type mosfet is used as shown in the circuit schematic below:
The potentiometer used to control the speed of the motor, it is connected to AN0. The microcontroller reads the analog data from AN0 channel and uses the digital value (after conversion) to set the PWM duty cycle.
PIC18F4550 CCP1 module is used as PWM with a frequency of 500Hz.
PIC18F4550 microcontroller internal oscillator is used (8MHz) and MCLR pin function is disabled.
DC Motor speed control with PIC18F4550 CCS C code:
The code is described through its comments so there is no thing to add.
// Dc motor speed control with PIC18F4550 CCS PIC C code
// http://ccspicc.blogspot.com/
// electronnote@gmail.com
#include <18F4550.h>
#device ADC = 10
#fuses NOMCLR INTRC_IO
#use delay(clock = 8000000)
unsigned int16 i ;
void main(){
setup_oscillator(OSC_8MHZ); // Set internal oscillator to 8MHz
setup_adc(ADC_CLOCK_DIV_8); // Set ADC conversion time to 8Tosc
setup_adc_ports(AN0); // Configure AN0 as analog input
set_adc_channel(0); // Select channel AN0
setup_ccp1(CCP_PWM); // Configure CCP1 as a PWM
setup_timer_2(T2_DIV_BY_16, 250, 1); // Set PWM frequency to 500Hz
delay_ms(100); // Wait 100ms
while(TRUE){
i = read_adc(); // Read from AN0 and store in i
set_pwm1_duty(i); // Set pwm1 duty cycle
delay_ms(10); // Wait 10ms
}
}
DC Motor speed control with PIC18F4550 video:
The following video shows a hardware circuit for this project with some details.