Oscillation with Step/Dir and Encoder on a Servo

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28 Jul 2020 21:28 #176284 by halfwitEngineer
Oscillation with Step/Dir and Encoder on a Servo was created by halfwitEngineer
Hello, I'm a newbie and I've run into some trouble - I see oscillation on my servo motor as soon as the drive is enabled and throughout any motion. I've seen several similar posts but I've been unable to find a solution that works. I'm guessing I've made some dumb mistake along the way so I'm reaching out hoping someone can skim through my .hal/.ini files to find a glaring mistake (attached).

This is my first time tinkering with LinuxCNC and I'm trying to dip my toes in with a single axis rotary table project.

A breakdown of my hardware:
Raspberry PI 4
Mesa 7C81
Mesa 7i76
DMM DYN4 servo drive + servo motor/encoder
Rotary table with 180:1 worm reduction

The RPi talks nicely to the 7C81 and the 7i76 and I can jog the axis if using stepgen.00.position-fb for position feedback but as soon as I swap in the encoder position I get oscillation. Moving using stepgen does visually look like I've go the correct scaling ratio on steps and if I enable the encoder position but leave the drive disabled it also appears visually to have the correct scale (manually rotate the shaft and watch DRO). My hal/ini files originally came from PNCconf and I modified them to suit the 7C81 and a single axis so maybe my mistake occurred there somewhere.

It's also worth noting I changed joint0 min_ferror to 0.5 to allow the oscillation to take place rather than immediately error out with a joint following error. I've also changed a few other parameters but did my best to leave a "#was...." comment nearby.

I could go on and on with details but instead I think i'll wait for a bit of feedback. Thanks in advance for the help!
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28 Jul 2020 21:32 #176286 by PCW
You will need a _much_ lower P term for encoder feedback instead of stepgen feedback
This is because the stepgen feedback has instant response but the drive has significant
delay from command to feedback response

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29 Jul 2020 12:51 #176384 by halfwitEngineer
Replied by halfwitEngineer on topic Oscillation with Step/Dir and Encoder on a Servo
Success!! You weren't kidding... dropped it all the way to 10. Will work my way back up to see how high I can get it before it becomes unstable.

Thank you!

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