Multidisciplinary Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, Volume 1, Issue 2, Pg.

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Shinde Krishnat Arvind
Department of Electrical Engg.
K.J. College of Engineering
Pune,India

Speed Control of DC Motor using

PIC 16F877A Microcontroller

Tarate Akshay Arun

Department of Electrical Engg.
K.J. College of Engineering
Pune, India

Taur Sandip Madhukar

Department of Electrical Engg.
K.J. College of Engineering
Pune, India

Prof. Jayashree Deka

Department of Electrical Engg.
K.J. College of Engineering
Pune,India

Abstract

Control system design and analysis technologies are widely suppress and very
useful to be applied in real-time development. Some can be solved by hardware
technology and by the advance used of software, control system are analyzed easily
and detail.
DC Motors can be used in various applications and can be used as various sizes and
rates as per our applications. In this project we have control the actual speed of dc
motor as per ours requirement. This can be achieved through PIC microcontroller.
The microcontroller computes the actual speed of the motor by sensing the terminal
voltage and displayed on LCD.
In this project firstly we are giving the supply to PIC microcontroller. Then
controller generates the pulse generally 5 volt DC. The generated pulse is nothing
but PWM signal. Which giving to driver circuit. The function of this driver circuit
to generate 12v DC pulse. This is necessary to switch/triggering on MOSFET.Thus
speed of DC motor is control through duty/PWM cycle. This PWM pulse is giving
to MOSFET for triggering purpose.
The modeling and simulation of this project is done through MP-LAB software.
It then compares the actual speed of the motor with the reference speed and
generates a suitable control signal which is fed into the triggering unit using
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MATLAB.Here we use PID Controller for error minimization purpose. This unit
drives a Power MOSFET amplifier, which in turn supplies a PWM voltage to the dc
motor.
Keywords: DC Motor, PIC Microcontroller,PWM Pulse, Duty Cycle,MOSFET,Driver Circuit,MP
s/w.

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Control system design and analysis technologies are widely suppress and very useful to be
applied in real-time development. Some can be solved by hardware technology and by the
advance used of software, control system are analyzed easily and detail.DC Motors can be
used in various applications and can be used in various sizes and rates as per our applications.
The DC-Motor is used in domestics and industrial purpose.
Whenever we think about any programmable devices then the embedded technology comes
into fore front. The embedded is now-a- days very much popular and most of the product are
developed with Microcontroller based embedded technology. The advantages of using the
microcontroller is the reduction of the cost and also the use of extra hardware such as the use
of timer, RAM and ROM can be avoided. This technology is very fast so controlling of
multiple parameters is possible; also the parameters are field programmable by the user.
In this project we are controlling speed of DC motor. As we increase the speed of DC Motor
as a result an increase in the productivity of material. The application of this is used in
domestics purpose examples are hair dryer, mixer, zero machine,elevator and industrial
purpose examples are traction and elevator. In this project we have control the actual speed of
dc motor as per ourrequirement. This can be achieved through PIC microcontroller. The
microcontroller computes the actual speed of the motor by sensing the terminal voltage and
displayed on LCD.
In this project firstly we are giving the supply to PIC16F8774 microcontroller. Then
controller generates the pulse generally 5VDC.The generated pulse is nothing but PWM
signal,which is given to the driver circuit. The function of this driver circuit is to generate
12V DC pulse. This is necessary to switch/trigger the MOSFET.Thus the speed of DC motor
is controlled through duty/PWM cycle. This PWM pulse is given to MOSFET for triggering
purpose.
The modeling and simulation of this project is done through MATLAB/PROTES software.It
then compares the actual speed of the motor with the reference speed and generates a suitable
control signal which is fed into the triggering unit using MATLAB.here we use PID
Controller for error minimization purpose. This unit drives a Power MOSFET amplifier,
which in turn supplies a PWM voltage to the dc motor.DC Motors can be used in various
applications.
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1.2 Objective of project

The main core of this project is to design a speed control system of DC Motor by using
microcontroller. This system will be able to control the DC motor speed at desired speed
regardless the changes of load.
1.3 Scope of Project
In order to achieve the objective of the project, there are several scope had been outlined. The
scope of this project includes using MPLAB IDE to program microcontroller PIC 16F877A,
build hardware for the system, and interface the hardware to computer by using RS232 serial
port communication. Last but not least, a graph of speed versus time is obtained by using
Visual Basic 6.0 at computer to observe the performance of the system.
1.4 Block Diagram

Fig.1 block diagram of project

1.5 Block diagram is consisting of following parts

AC SUPPLY
RECTIFER AND FILTER
GATE CURCUIT(MOSFET)
DRIVER CURCUIT
PIC 16F877A MICROCONTROLLER
5 VOLT DC SUPPLY
BOOSTER CURCUIT
DC MOTOR

1.6 5v Dc Power Supply

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Fig.2 power supply

1.7 Working Principle of 5v dc power supply

The AC voltage, typically 220V rms, is connected to a transformer, which steps that ac
voltage down to the level of the desired DC output. A diode rectifier then provides a fullwave rectified voltage that is initially filtered by a simple capacitor filter to produce a dc
voltage. This resulting dc voltage usually has some ripple or ac voltage variation.A regulator
circuit removes the ripples and also remains the same dc value even if the input dc voltage
varies, or the load connected to the output dc voltage changes.
1.8 PIC 16F877A Microcontroller
Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) is introduced by Microchip technology. PIC 16F877A is
a family of CMOS 8-bit Flash microcontroller. Power consumption is very low. PIC16F877A
is a 40/44-pin device which can operate at up to 20 MHz clock speed. It has 8K * 14 words
flash program memory, 368*8 RAM data memory, 64bytes of EEPROM nonvolatile data
memory, 8-bit timer with watchdog timer, Only 35 single-word instructions to learn, external
and internal interrupt sources and large sink and source capability. The architecture is given
by

Fig.3 PIC controller block diagram

PIC microcontrollers have a data memory bus of 8-bit and a program memory bus of 12, 14
or 16 bit length depending on the family. All PIC microcontrollers have a mix of different on226 | P a g e
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chip peripherals like A/D converters, Comparators, weak pull-ups, PWM modules, UARTs,
Timers, SPI, I2C, USB, LCD, and CAN etc.
1.9 Driver circuit
The driver circuit is divided into following parts:
1. Buffer Circuit
2. Isolation Circuit
3. Phase Shifting (Transitor)
4. Darlington pair
D1

FROM MICRO CONTROLLER

U1

D1N1190
R1

R3

R4

1K

Q2

1k
OP-07C/301/TI

MCT2E

R2

100

100

Q1

Q3

230/12V

R5

BDX37

100
R6
1k

C1
1n

500mA

R8
1k

S
0

Fig.4 Driver circuit

1.9.1 Buffer Circuit

The buffer IC used here IC 4050 is used for pulse generation to generate triggering pulse.
There are pull up resistors to provide a resistance in series with the microcontroller which
acts as a current source here. This IC acts as an impedance improvement buffer IC. Voltage
follower concept is used and the signal is getting inverted. Now it is given to the isolator.

Fig.5 Pin out of buffer IC

Since the microcontroller is a sensitive device and MOSFET carries high current, in order to
provide isolation between the two, isolation is being provided by the opt coupler required.
1.9.2 Optocoupler
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In electronics, an opto-isolator (or optical isolator, optocoupler or photocoupler) is a device

that uses a short opticaltransmissionpath to transfer a signal between elements of a circuit,
typically a transmitter and a receiver, while keeping them electrically isolated since the
signal goes from an electrical signal to an optical signal back to an electrical signal, electrical
contact along the path is broken.
A common implementation involves an LED and a light sensor, separated so that light may
travel across a barrier but electrical current may not. When an electrical signal is applied to
the input of the opto-isolator, its LED lights, its light sensor then activates, and a
corresponding electrical signal is generated at the output. Unlike common implementation
involves an LED and a light sensor, separated so that light may travel across a barrier but
electrical current may not. When an electrical signal is applied to the input of the optoisolator, its LED lights, its light sensor then activates, and a corresponding electrical signal is
generated at the output. Unlike a transformer, the opto-isolator allows for DC coupling and
generally provides significant protection from serious overvoltage conditions in one circuit
affecting the othertransformer, the opto-isolator allows for DC coupling and
generallyprovides significant protection from serious overvoltage conditions in one circuit
affecting the other.

Fig.6 Opt coupler

With a photodiode as the detector, the output current is proportional to the amount of incident
light supplied by the emitter. The diode can be used in a photovoltaic mode or a
photoconductive mode.
Device rating:
OPTOCOUPLER MCT2E 1 K, 100 resistance
1.9.3 Phase shifting transistor
The function of this phase shifting transistor is to shift the output pulse of PIC
microcontroller to exact 0 and 1 binary form.
This transistor removing over pulse voltage to suitable voltage pulse which is necessary for
next operation.

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1.9.4 Darlington amplifier

In electronics, the Darlington transistor is a semiconductor device which combines two
bipolar transistors.It is used for boosting the current gain.which is required for MOSFET.
A similar transistor configuration using two transistors of opposite type (NPN and PNP) is
the Sziklai pair, sometimes called the "complementary Darlington". Finally the amplified
signal is sent to the multilevel inverter and the output is obtained.
2. CONTROL TECHNIQUE
In this project we are using PWM control technique.this technique is used from PIC
microcontroller.The pwm pulse is coming from PORT C of microcontroller.this PWM pulse
is divided into various duty cycle.e.g.25%,50%.

The average of voltage that supply to DC motor is given by,

3. BOOSTER CIRCUIT
The main fuction booster circuit is to boost the supply to required demand of the motor.
The booster circuit is divided into various components.these are follows:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)

AC Power supply
Transformer
Rectifier
Inductor
Switch(MOSFET)

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Fig.7 booster circuit

6) Diode
7) Capacitor
4. DC MOTOR
Direct current (DC) motors have variable characteristics and are used extensively in variablespeed drives. DC motor can provide a high starting torque and it is also possible to obtain
speed control over wide range. Why do we need a speed motor controller? For example, if we
have a DC motor in a robot, if we just apply a constant power to each motor on a robot, then
the poor robot will never be able to maintain a steady speed. It will go slower over carpet,
faster over smooth flooring, slower up hill, faster down hill, etc. So, it is important to make a
controller to control the speed of DC motor in desired speed.

Fig.8 DC-Motor

DC motor plays a significant role in modern industrial. These are several types of
applications where the load on the DC motor varies over a speed range. These applications
may demand high-speed control accuracy and good dynamic responses.

5. HOW TO DOWNLOAD PROGRAM IN PIC MICROCONTROLLER USING

MPLAB SOFTWARE
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Procedure:
1. Open mplab software.
2. Select project and project wizard.
3. Choose pic16f68774 controller
4. Select complier-hitech
5. Give floder path and finish
6. Creat new source file.
7. In that space type code of project.
8. Save as extension .c
9. Source file right click and add file .c
10. Open and run (black icon)
11. Ensur that rs232 cable is coonect to dump kit.
12. Select programmer and RIC kit 2
13. Download the program in pic controller
14. after that kit is ready this massage will come.
6. RESULTS OF PROJECT
Microcontroller Pwm Pulse

Fig.9 Output pulses of PIC16F877A through pwm for25 % Duty cycle.

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Fig.10 Output pulses of PIC16F877A through pwm for50 % Duty cycle.

Fig.11 Output pulses of PIC16F877A through pwm for75 % Duty cycle.

7. OVERALL HARDWARE KIT OF PROJECT

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Fig.10 overall project diagram

8. CONCLUSION
Recent developments in science and technology provide a wide range scope of applications
of high performance DC motor drives in area such as rolling mills, chemical process, electric
trains, robotic manipulators and the home electric appliances require speed controllers to
perform tasks. DC motors have speed control capabilities, which means that speed, torque
and even direction of rotation can be changed at anytime to meet new condition.
The goal of this project is to design a DC motor speed control system by using
microcontroller PIC16F877A.The controller will maintain the speed at desired speed when
there is a variation of load. By varying the PWM signal from microcontroller to the motor
driver, motor speed can be controlled back to desired value easily.
ACKNOWLEGEMENT
Each and every effort requires a positive support from the many peoples and areas. We would
like to thank our respected HOD Prof. N. M. LOKHANDE. Who permitted and allowed us to
carry out project work using the facilities available in the department.We wish to extend our
thanks to the guidance which we receive from our project guide Prof. Jayashree Deka.

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