Conception of Stewart-Gough platform with reconfigurable control using integrate prototyping

This paper shows that a hierarchical architecture, distributing the several control actions in growing levels of complexity and using resources of reconfigurable computing, enables to take into account the easiness of future modifications, updates and improvements in robotic applications. An experimental example of a Stewart-Gough platform control, platform applied as a solution of countless practical problems, is presented using reconfigurable computing. The developed software and hardware are structured in independent blocks. This open architecture implementation allows an easy expansion of the system and a better adaptation of the platform to its related tasks