Methods and systems for controlling a vibratory feeder

A control system for a vibratory feeder comprising:

• a controller module including a graphical user interface for selecting operating parameters to be communicated to a bowl drive that causes a feeder bowl to move, monitoring algorithms stored in non-transitory memory for processing motion data to monitor motion of said feeder bowl, adjustment algorithms stored in non-transitory memory for determining and automatically adjusting said operating parameters, an operating parameter sub-module for creating application-specific sets of operating parameters including horizontal power, horizontal frequency, vertical power, vertical frequency, and phase, and non-transitory memory for storing said application-specific sets of operating parameters created in said operating parameter sub-module;
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• a motion sensor module configured to mount with and sense motion of said bowl drive, said motion sensor module including an accelerometer, a digital signal processor (DSP) microcontroller, and a transmitter;
• wherein said DSP microcontroller samples output data from said accelerometer, determines motion data of said motion of said bowl drive, and transmits said motion data via said transmitter to said controller module;
• wherein said controller module is configured to have a default power step size of about 1% and manually entered power step sizes from about 0.1% to about 1% in about 0.1% increments.

A control system for a vibratory feeder comprising:

• a controller module including a graphical user interface for selecting operating parameters to be communicated to a bowl drive that causes a feeder bowl to move, monitoring algorithms stored in non-transitory memory for processing motion data to monitor motion of said feeder bowl, adjustment algorithms stored in non-transitory memory for determining and automatically adjusting said operating parameters, an operating parameter sub-module for creating application-specific sets of operating parameters including horizontal power, horizontal frequency, vertical power, vertical frequency, and phase, and non-transitory memory for storing said application-specific sets of operating parameters created in said operating parameter sub-module;
• and
• a motion sensor module configured to mount with and sense motion of said bowl drive, said motion sensor module including an accelerometer, a digital signal processor (DSP) microcontroller, and a transmitter;
• wherein said DSP microcontroller samples output data from said accelerometer, determines motion data of said motion of said bowl drive, and transmits said motion data via said transmitter to said controller module;
• wherein said controller module is configured to have a default frequency step size of about 0.1 Hz and manually entered frequency step sizes from about 0.01 Hz to about 0.1 Hz in about 0.01 Hz increments.