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moteus brushless servo

This contains full designs for the moteus brushless servo actuator, including firmware and PCBs.

WARNING: This is not just a software project. It includes designs for moderately high power electronics. It has not yet burned down my (or anyone's that I know of) house, but there are no guarantees.

Specifications

Name r4.11 c1 n1 x1
Voltage Input 10-44V 10-51V 10-54V 10-54V
Peak Electrical Power 900W @ 30V 250W @ 28V 1.3kW @ 36V 1kW @ 36V
Mass 14.2g 8.9g 14.6g 23.8g
Control Rate 15-30kHz - - -
PWM Switching Rate 15-60kHz - - -
CPU STM32G4 - - -
Uncooled phase current 12A 5A 9A 25A
Cooled phase current 32A 14A 26A 62A
Peak phase current 100A 20A 100A 120A
Communications 5Mbps CAN-FD - - -
Dimensions 46x53mm 38x38x9mm 46x46x8mm 56x56x10mm

Assembled and tested boards can be purchased at: https://mjbots.com

Directory structure

  • hw/ - hardware (mechanical and electrical designs)
    • controller/ - PCB design for moteus-r4.11
    • c1/ - PCB design for moteus-c1
    • n1/ - PCB design for moteus-n1
    • x1/ - PCB design for moteus-x1
  • fw/ - firmware for brushless controller
  • lib/ - client side software
  • utils/ - diagnostic tools
  • tools/ - bazel build configure
  • docs/ - documentation

Documentation

Misc

  • CI Status

How to support moteus development

The easiest way to support development the moteus hardware and firmware is as follows:

  1. Buy things from https://mjbots.com
  2. Build awesome machines!

That's it! If for some reason you want to go above and beyond, you can sponsor mjbots through github: https://github.com/sponsors/mjbots

License

All files contained in this repository, unless otherwise noted, are available under an Apache 2.0 License: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Trademark

mjbots Robotic Systems LLC owns and protects the "mjbots" and "moteus" trademarks in many jurisdictions.

If you want to use these names in your project or product, please read the Trademark Policy

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