Motor/encoder calculations - Accell, Decell and Stopping Distance

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Well, from what I can gather, I properly need to update speed/count/corrections every 1mS or so.
It seems that generally a PI function is used, instead of a PID, when it comes to motor control.

I'll spend some time trolling through PIC, Freescale, etc website looking for papers.
Some of the specific motor control chips may have some S/W that I can look at.

Thanks for the AccelStepper suggestion. Their site has some good stuff and the forum is usefull :slight_smile:
in case someone else is looking, here is the link
http://www.open.com.au/mikem/arduino/AccelStepper/

K