PWM Wave-Based Cooperative Vector Control of Multiple Stepper Motors for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

This paper studies the control system of multiple stepper motors. Four stepper motors are selected to design the vector control system for the actual application scenario of the unmanned surface vehicles. This paper designs a PWM wave-based motor control algorithm taking into account the characteristics of stepper motors. We proposes a closed-loop control algorithm incorporating magnetic encoders. The system applies CAN bus to realize the communication among stepper motors, enabling distributed cooperative control four stepper motors of the unmanned surface vehicles. In this paper, the multiple stepper motor system is modeled and finally simulated and experimentally verified to achieve cooperative vector control of multiple stepper motors for surface vehicles.