Stabilizer for a Photographing Apparatus and a Control Method for Such a Stabilizer

• US 20150261070A1
• Filed: 05/15/2014
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Guangzhou Wewow Electronic Co.,Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Guangzhou HTEC Aviation Technology Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lin, Jian, Feng, Jian, Tsang, Tze Bun
• Application Number:
  US14/278,933
• Publication Number:
  US 20150261070A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/00 Other supports for positioning apparatus or articles heads thereof F16M11/02 ; undercarriages thereof F16M11/20 ; adapted to be stuck in the ground A45F3/44 ; sockets or holders for poles or posts E04H12/22; Means for steadying hand-held apparatus or articles supports for measuring instruments G01D11/30; supports for casings of remote control switching devices H01H9/025
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/56 Accessories carrying-cases A45C11/38
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/561 Support related camera accessories
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/563 Camera grips, handles means in general for steadying hand-held apparatus F16M13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 5/00 Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing

Abstract

A stabilizer for a photographing apparatus is disclosed. The stabilizer includes a first rotating shaft driven by a first three-phase brushless AC motor, a second rotating shaft driven by a second three-phase brushless AC motor, a first magnetic rotary encoder mounted on the first three-phase brushless AC motor, a second magnetic rotary encoder mounted on the second three-phase brushless AC motor, an inertial sensor, a fixing member, and a controller. The first and second three-phase brushless AC motors, the inertial sensor, and the first and second magnetic rotary encoders are electrically connected to the controller, respectively. The inertial sensor is mounted on the fixing member, the center axes of the first and second rotating shafts are perpendicular to each other, the fixing member is connected to the first rotating shaft, and the first three-phase brushless AC motor is connected to the second rotating shaft by a bending member.

Claims

1. A stabilizer for a photographing apparatus, comprising:

a first rotating shaft driven by a first three-phase brushless AC motor;

a second rotating shaft driven by a second three-phase brushless AC motor;

a first magnetic rotary encoder mounted on the first three-phase brushless AC motor;

a second magnetic rotary encoder mounted on the second three-phase brushless AC motor;

an inertial sensor;

a fixing member; and

a controller,

wherein the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, the inertial sensor, the first magnetic rotary encoder, and the second magnetic rotary encoder are electrically connected to the controller, respectively, the inertial sensor is mounted on the fixing member, the center axis of the first rotating shaft is perpendicular to the center axis of the second rotating shaft, the fixing member is connected to the first rotating shaft, and the first three-phase brushless AC motor is connected to the second rotating shaft by a bending member.

2. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the fixing member comprises a supporting plate, a first clamping element, and a second clamping element, each of opposite sides of the supporting plate is provided with an engaging mount, each of the first clamping element and the second clamping element is provided with an engaging shaft, the engaging shaft is hitched with a torsion spring, the first clamping element and the second clamping element can be rotatably mounted on the supporting plate by a cooperation between the engaging shaft and the engaging mount, and the supporting plate is connected to the first rotating shaft.

3. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 2, wherein a holding surface of each of the first clamping element and the second clamping element is an inward concave surface and the holding surfaces of the first clamping element and the second clamping element are symmetrical.

4. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the fixing member comprises a bearing plate, a connecting plate, and a positioning element, the connecting plate comprises a connection portion and a mounting portion perpendicular to the connection portion, the connection portion is connected to the first rotating shaft by a first leadscrew nut mechanism, the mounting portion is connected to the bearing plate by a second leadscrew nut mechanism, and the positioning element is provided on a side of the bearing plate.

5. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 1, wherein a display is provided at a side of the second three-phase brushless AC motor remote from the second rotating shaft, configured to be electrically connected to a photographing apparatus.

6. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the first magnetic rotary encoder and the second magnetic rotary encoder comprises a circular magnetic steel sheet and an encoder chip, the circular magnetic steel sheet is mounted on each of the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft, and the encoder chip is configured to face the circular magnetic steel sheet and be electrically connected to the controller.

7. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the stabilizer further comprises a universal handle, the second three-phase brushless AC motor is connected to the universal handle, the controller is provided in the universal handle, the universal handle is provided with a power switch and a rotating shaft adjustment rod, the power switch and the rotating shaft adjustment rod are electrically connected to the controller, respectively.

8. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the stabilizer further comprises a third rotating shaft driven by a third three-phase brushless AC motor, a connecting rod, an operating handle, a geomagnetic sensor, and a third magnetic rotary encoder, the geomagnetic sensor and the third magnetic rotary encoder are electrically connected to the controller, respectively, the geomagnetic sensor is mounted on the fixing member, the third magnetic rotary encoder is mounted on the third three-phase brushless AC motor, the third three-phase brushless AC motor is connected to the operating handle, the third rotating shaft is connected to the second three-phase brushless AC motor by the connecting rod, and the center axis of the third rotating shaft is perpendicular to the center axes of the first and second rotating shafts, respectively.

9. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the third magnetic rotary encoder includes a circular magnetic steel sheet and an encoder chip, the circular magnetic steel sheet is mounted on the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft, and the third rotating shaft, and the encoder chip is configured to face the circular magnetic steel sheet and be electrically connected to the controller.

10. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 9, wherein each of the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft, and the third rotating shaft is hollow with a collecting ring inside.

11. The stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 10, wherein each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor is in a form of a flattened columned disc.

12. A control method for the stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 1, comprising:

detecting an angular velocity and an accelerated velocity of each of three spatial axes in real time and transmitting them to the controller by the inertial sensor;

predicting a tendency of a motion of each of the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft based on data from the inertial sensor and issuing a control command to each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor and the second three-phase brushless AC motor to adjust a position of each of the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft by the controller; and

detecting rotation information of each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor and the second three-phase brushless AC motor and transmitting the rotation information to the controller by the first magnetic rotary encoder and the second magnetic rotary encoder, respectively, calculating an absolute position of each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor and the second three-phase brushless AC motor based on the rotation information and issuing a control command to each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor and the second three-phase brushless AC motor by the controller, and rotating each of the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft to an original position based on the control command from the controller by the first three-phase brushless AC motor and the second three-phase brushless AC motor, respectively.

13. A control method of the stabilizer for a photographing apparatus of claim 8, comprising:

detecting an angular velocity and an accelerated velocity of each of three spatial axes in real time and transmitting them to the controller by the inertial sensor, and detecting a geomagnetic field intensity of each of three spatial axes and transmitting it to the controller by the geomagnetic sensor;

predicting a directional angle and a tendency of a motion of each of the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft, and the third rotating shaft based on data from the inertial sensor and the geomagnetic sensor and issuing a control command to each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor by the controller, and adjusting a position of each of the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft, and the third rotating shaft based on the control command by the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor, respectively; and

detecting rotation information of each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor and transmitting the rotation information to the controller by the first magnetic rotary encoder, the second magnetic rotary encoder, and the third magnetic rotary encoder, respectively, calculating an absolute position of each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor based on the rotation information and issuing a control command to each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor by the controller, and rotating each of the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft, and the third rotating shaft to an original position based on the control command from the controller by the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor, respectively.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein predicting a directional angle and a tendency of a motion of each of the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft, and the third rotating shaft based on data from the inertial sensor and the geomagnetic sensor and issuing a control command to each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor by the controller, comprises:

reading data of the inertial sensor and the geomagnetic sensor in real time and calculating a current attitude of each of the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft, and the third rotating shaft by the controller;

calculating control increments by using the angular velocities of three spatial axes as feedback quantity and using the calculated current attitude angles of the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft, and the third rotating shaft as compensation by the controller; and

adding the control increments to driving targets of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor and distributing a pulse-width modulatable continuous pulse at a duty ratio corresponding to a three-phase sine wave to each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor based on the driving targets by the controller.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the continuous pulse operates at frequencies between 16 KHz/s and 22 KHz/s.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein detecting rotation information of each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor and transmitting the rotation information to the controller by the first magnetic rotary encoder, the second magnetic rotary encoder, and the third magnetic rotary encoder, respectively, comprises:

forming a rotating magnetic field by a rotation of each of the circular magnetic steel sheets with the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor, respectively, detecting the rotating magnetic field and outputting two orthogonal sine wave signals to the controller by the encoder chips, and calculating an absolute position of each of the first three-phase brushless AC motor, the second three-phase brushless AC motor, and the third three-phase brushless AC motor based on data from the encoder chips by the controller.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the controller collects data from the inertial sensor and the magnetic rotary encoders at frequencies between 1,300/s and 1,600/s in the above steps.