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Interfacing Servo Motor with PIC Microcontroller - MPLAB XC8

Interfacing Servo Motor with PIC Microcontroller MPLAB

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Servo Motor is an ordinary geared dc motor
equipped with closed loop servo mechanism
which uses position feedback to control exact
angular position of the rotor. These are
commonly used in robotic arms, legs etc. Servo
Motors do not rotate continuously, their rotation
is limited to fixed angles. Usually these motors
have rotation limit from 90 to 180 and some
special have limits 360 or more.
Servo Motors usually have three wires. RED
and BLACK wires are used to provide power.

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servo you are using, so please refer the
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third wire is used to provide control signals to control exact angular position of the servo
motor. Its color varies for different manufactures such as YELLOW, BROWN, WHITE etc.
Servo Motor shaft can be moved to desired position by using Pulse Width Modulated (
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(PWM

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Unlike DC Motors, reversing the power supply polarity does not reverse the rotation instead
of it may damage the control circuitry.

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Servo Motors can be easily interfaced with PIC Microcontroller. Here for demonstration we
are using PIC 16F877A and VIGOR VS-10A servo motor. The required pulse width of this
servo motor ranges from 800S to 2200S and rotation angle is greater than or equal to
170. Its operating voltage range is 4.8V to 6V.

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Circuit Diagram

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Tip : Use separate power supplies for PIC and Servo Motor OR use proper filtering
capacitors otherwise ripples produced by the Servo Motor may affect the working of PIC.

MPLAB XC8 Code

#define _XTAL_FREQ 8000000
#include <xc.h>
// BEGIN CONFIG
#pragma config FOSC = HS
#pragma config WDTE = OFF
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#pragma config
#pragma config
#pragma config
#pragma config
#pragma config
#pragma config
//END CONFIG

Interfacing Servo Motor with PIC Microcontroller - MPLAB XC8

PWRTE = OFF
BOREN = ON
LVP = OFF
CPD = OFF
WRT = OFF
CP = OFF

void servoRotate0() //0 Degree

{
unsigned int i;
for(i=0;i<50;i++)
{
RB0 = 1;
__delay_us(800);
RB0 = 0;
__delay_us(19200);
}
}
void servoRotate90() //90 Degree
{
unsigned int i;
for(i=0;i<50;i++)
{
RB0 = 1;
__delay_us(1500);
RB0 = 0;
__delay_us(18500);
}
}
void servoRotate180() //180 Degree
{
unsigned int i;
for(i=0;i<50;i++)
{
RB0 = 1;
__delay_us(2200);
RB0 = 0;
__delay_us(17800);
}
}
void main()
{
TRISB = 0; // PORTB as Ouput Port
do
{
servoRotate0(); //0 Degree
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__delay_ms(2000);
servoRotate90(); //90 Degree
__delay_ms(2000);
servoRotate180(); //180 Degree
}while(1);
}

Hope you can understand the working of the above program. If you have any doubts just
comment below.

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Copper Masud

a month ago

MG996R
how can i drive this servo , pleasee ?? your code dont work with this one..

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Ligo George

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> Copper Masud a month ago

use pulse width according to that servo specifications.

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