Evaluation Of OSMC Open Source Motor Driver for Reproducible Robotics Research

There is a growing need for open source hardware (OSH) subcomponents to be evaluated. Most robotic systems are ultimately based upon motors which are driven to move either to certain positions, as in robot arms, or to certain velocities, as in wheeled mobile robots. We evaluate a state of the art OSH driver, OSMC, for such systems, and contribute new Open Source Software to control it. Our findings suggest that OSMC is now mature enough to replace closed-source motor drivers in medium-size robots such as agri-robots and last mile delivery vehicles.