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Re: Speed Control for Balancing Vehicle
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Originally Posted by Random Dude
Not really. The controll signal for a servo is a PWM signal by definition. The width of the pulse is varied to encode the data. With PPM however, the data is encoded by moving the pulse in time with respect to some reference.

This is also good document on the servo control signal: http://www.princeton.edu/~mae412/TEX...02/292-302.pdf
I am confused now. I can do a search with PPM and I can get a lot of websites on r/c radio control. Not to mention I have two books that call it Pulse Position Modulation and the acronym PPM is listed on R/C radios being sold.
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