The high-speed computational performance is gained at the cost of huge hardware resource,which restricts the application of high-accuracy algorithms because of the limited hardware cost in practical use.To solve the p...The high-speed computational performance is gained at the cost of huge hardware resource,which restricts the application of high-accuracy algorithms because of the limited hardware cost in practical use.To solve the problem,a novel method for designing the field programmable gate array(FPGA)-based non-uniform rational B-spline(NURBS) interpolator and motion controller,which adopts the embedded multiprocessor technique,is proposed in this study.The hardware and software design for the multiprocessor,one of which is for NURBS interpolation and the other for position servo control,is presented.Performance analysis and experiments on an X-Y table are carried out,hardware cost as well as consuming time for interpolation and motion control is compared with the existing methods.The experimental and comparing results indicate that,compared with the existing methods,the proposed method can reduce the hardware cost by 97.5% using higher-accuracy interpolation algorithm within the period of 0.5 ms.A method which ensures the real-time performance and interpolation accuracy,and reduces the hardware cost significantly is proposed,and it’s practical in the use of industrial application.展开更多
In modern manufacturing equipment control area,controller is required to deliver higher computing capability for adopting advanced algorithms to meet speed and accuracy requirements,and reconfigurabilities for changin...In modern manufacturing equipment control area,controller is required to deliver higher computing capability for adopting advanced algorithms to meet speed and accuracy requirements,and reconfigurabilities for changing or(and)adding features or functions.This paper presents a methodology in design and implementation of a high performance and reconfigurable platform for manufacturing equipment control.This methodology is in virtue of system on a programmable chip(SoPC)technolo-gy but replacing the on-chip processor by an external high performance,floating-point digital signal processor(DSP).The appli-cation of the DSP is designed as a multi-threaded framework,which has more flexibilities than a traditional single-loop one.Fur-thermore,the field programmable gate array(FPGA)system can be reconfigured easily and quickly to meet a new requirement by dragging and dropping pre-built components in a SoPC building environment.As a result,the controller platform is more recon-figurable in terms of algorithms and functions.This platform is implemented in a 3-axis milling machine control and the result indicates that the design and implementation presented in this paper is feasible.展开更多
基金supported by National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 ProgramGrant No.2011CB706804)+1 种基金Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission of China(Grant No.11QH1401400)Research Project of State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System & Vibration of China(Grant No.MSVMS201102)
文摘The high-speed computational performance is gained at the cost of huge hardware resource,which restricts the application of high-accuracy algorithms because of the limited hardware cost in practical use.To solve the problem,a novel method for designing the field programmable gate array(FPGA)-based non-uniform rational B-spline(NURBS) interpolator and motion controller,which adopts the embedded multiprocessor technique,is proposed in this study.The hardware and software design for the multiprocessor,one of which is for NURBS interpolation and the other for position servo control,is presented.Performance analysis and experiments on an X-Y table are carried out,hardware cost as well as consuming time for interpolation and motion control is compared with the existing methods.The experimental and comparing results indicate that,compared with the existing methods,the proposed method can reduce the hardware cost by 97.5% using higher-accuracy interpolation algorithm within the period of 0.5 ms.A method which ensures the real-time performance and interpolation accuracy,and reduces the hardware cost significantly is proposed,and it’s practical in the use of industrial application.
基金Supported by the Foundation:Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Committee under Grant No.2002C1020407.
文摘In modern manufacturing equipment control area,controller is required to deliver higher computing capability for adopting advanced algorithms to meet speed and accuracy requirements,and reconfigurabilities for changing or(and)adding features or functions.This paper presents a methodology in design and implementation of a high performance and reconfigurable platform for manufacturing equipment control.This methodology is in virtue of system on a programmable chip(SoPC)technolo-gy but replacing the on-chip processor by an external high performance,floating-point digital signal processor(DSP).The appli-cation of the DSP is designed as a multi-threaded framework,which has more flexibilities than a traditional single-loop one.Fur-thermore,the field programmable gate array(FPGA)system can be reconfigured easily and quickly to meet a new requirement by dragging and dropping pre-built components in a SoPC building environment.As a result,the controller platform is more recon-figurable in terms of algorithms and functions.This platform is implemented in a 3-axis milling machine control and the result indicates that the design and implementation presented in this paper is feasible.
