STMicroelectronics STM32F303RE | Demoboard STEVAL-GMBL02V1

Description

The STEVAL-GMBL02V1 reference design kit is a complete triple motor field-oriented control (FOC) demonstration and evaluation platform. The kit is as an integrated environment for three axis Gimbal controller applications in the 6.0 V to 8.4 VDC bus voltage range (2 LiPo batteries), which you can increase up to 11 V with a maximum output current of 1.3 A for each motor drive.The design features the STM32F303RE microcontroller with ARM® Cortex®-M4 32-bit core and the STSPIN233 low voltage three phase and three sense motor driver.The STEVAL-GMBL02V1 is equipped with a USB interface for real-time data exchange. The kit includes an STEVAL-UKI001V1 ST-LINK adapter for serial wire debug (SWD) and corresponding cable. If you mount the STEVAL-UKI001V1 on the ST-LINK/V2-1 debugging section of an STM32 Nucleo-64 board, you can program and debug the STM32F303RE microcontroller with a compatible toolset via USB.

Features

• Up to three-axis Gimbal controller.
• Compact (50 x 50 mm) design, suitable for mounting on:
• drones
• handheld cameras
• Three STSPIN233 low voltage three phase and three sense motor drivers.
• STM32F303RE microcontroller with ARM® Cortex®-M4 core able to simultaneously drive three PMSMmotors:
• MCU runs a high efficiency field oriented control (FOC) algorithm compatible with the most common position sensors on Gimbal motors (PWM or analogic inputs)
• compatible with open loop sensorless algorithm
• Operating voltage from 6.0 V to 8.4 V (2 LiPo batteries).
• maximum output current 1.3 ARMS.
• Protection mechanisms:
• triple single shunt current sensing network
• non-dissipative overcurrent protection
• short-circuit protection
• thermal shutdown
• hardware overvoltage and polarity inversion protection
• on-board inertial measurement unit LSM6DSL (frame IMU)
• compatible with external SPI/I2C inertial measurement units (camera IMU)
• STEVAL-UKI001V1 Serial Wire Debug (SWD) board with cable
• USB connector for real-time data communication
• three connectors for Pitch, Roll and Tilt axis target angle inputs (PWM mode)
• one channel DAC output and one GPIO test point for debugging purpose
• 2 Kbit serial I2C bus EEPROM for data storage
• WEEE and RoHS compliant

Typical applications

• Gimbal controller for drones and handheld applications

More information

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