Standard Servo Read

Measure shaft position of standard servo motor in degrees

Add-On Required: This feature requires the Simulink Support Package for Arduino Hardware add-on.

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Libraries:
Simulink Support Package for Arduino Hardware / Common

Description

The Standard Servo Read block measures the shaft position in degrees of the standard servo motor interfaced with the Arduino^® hardware board.

You can run a Simulink^® model containing Standard Servo Read block in Connected IO mode on Arduino boards.

Note

If you use the Standard Servo Read block along with the Serial Receive and Serial Transmit blocks in a Simulink model, use longer sample times to avoid overruns.

Maximum Number of Servo Blocks Allowed Per Simulink Model

The number of Servo blocks, Standard Servo Read, Standard Servo Write, and Continuous Servo Write, you can use in your Simulink model depends on the number of timers on your Arduino hardware board. Every timer on the Arduino board can support up to 12 Servo blocks.

For example, consider the Arduino Mega 2560/ADK board. The maximum number of servo blocks that can be used per Simulink model is 48. If your Simulink model utilizes a total number of 48 Servo blocks and the board has 5 timers, timer 5 supports the first set of 12 (1 to 12) Servo blocks. Similarly, timer 1 supports the next set of 12 (13-24) Servo blocks, timer 3 supports the next set of 12 (25-36) Servo blocks, and finally, timer 4 supports the last set of 12 (37-48) servo blocks.

The Servo blocks are grouped as follows:

• Set 1: Servo blocks 1 to 12

• Set 2: Servo blocks 13 to 24

• Set 3: Servo blocks 25 to 36

• Set 4: Servo blocks 37 to 48

• Set 5: Servo blocks 49 to 60

This table shows how to assign timers to Servo blocks depending on the Arduino board you are using. It also provides the maximum number of Servo blocks that you can use per Simulink model.

Arduino Board Type	Timer	Maximum Number of Servo Blocks Per Simulink Model
Uno, Nano 3.0	1	Set 1
Mega 2560/ADK	1	Set 2
	3	Set 3
	4	Set 4
	5	Set 1
Leonardo, Robot Control Board, Robot Motor Board, Micro	1	Set 1
MKR 1000, MKR Wifi 1010, MKR Zero	TC4	Set 1
Nano 33 IoT	TC4	Set 1
Due	TC3_CH0	Set 1
	TC4_CH1	Set 2
	TC5_CH2	Set 3
	TC2_CH2	Set 4
	TC0_CH0	Set 5

Ports

Output

Data — Standard servo motor shaft rotation angle

positive integer in the range [0, 180]

The block outputs the shaft rotation angle from 0 to 180 degrees for the standard servo motor that you interface with the Arduino hardware board. When simulating without the hardware, the block outputs zeroes.

Data Types: uint8

Parameters

Pin number — Standard servo read pin number

2 (default) | scalar

Specify the Arduino hardware board pin number to which the standard servo read motor input signal is connected.

Note

Do not assign the same pin number to multiple blocks within a Simulink model.

For more information on how to assign pins or view the pins for the Standard Servo Read block, see Pin Mapping for Arduino Timer Dependent Blocks.

Sample time — Time interval at which block reads shaft rotation data

0.1 (default) | scalar

Enter the time interval in seconds at which the block reads the shaft rotation angle of the standard servo motor. The minimum sample time is 0.000001.

View Pin Map — Open pin mapping for Arduino hardware boards

button

Click this button to view the pin mapping table associated with the Arduino hardware board you select.

Version History

Introduced in R2012a