Team 26.75

CTS has an ongoing problem that causes actuators to not be able to land consistently on some motor step commands. As the current customer’s spec has a large margin of error, this has not affected the current product series. However, increasing accuracy may open additional markets to CTS. This led to an investigation to determine potential causes for the inability to land consistently on individual motor steps. There are six possible Hall states, which should occur with an equal probability if the stopping locations are randomly distributed. The investigation found that two of the Hall states occurred more frequently than the other four. These results spurred the capstone project to investigate the cause of the disproportionate number of Hall states 1 and 6 over the other four. Solving this issue will help to future proof CTS as the demand for higher accuracy increases.