Title :
Advanced control unit for linear motor for precise measurements in biomechanics
Author :
Bartik, Matej ; Novotny, Martin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Digital Design, Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract :
This paper describes design and development of an advanced control unit for linear motor. The unit is designed for performing precise, reliable and safe measurements in (cardiovascular) biomechanics. Design and implementation of this embedded system is focused on availability, predictability and fail-safe behavior. Designing this system shows practical use of an FPGA chips for embedded system design with respect to low latency, high throughput, real-time operations and parallel processing of commands and/or handling error states. The control software has been developed in C/MATLAB.
Keywords :
biomedical measurement; control engineering computing; electric machine analysis computing; embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; linear motors; machine control; parallel processing; C-MATLAB; FPGA chips; advanced control unit; biomechanics; control software; embedded system; embedded system design; error state handling; fail-safe behavior; linear motor; parallel processing; precise measurements; safe measurements; Niobium; FPGA; MATLAB; advanced control system; availability; linear motor; low latency; precision; predictability; reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Embedded Computing (MECO), 2015 4th Mediterranean Conference on
Conference_Location :
Budva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8999-7
DOI :
10.1109/MECO.2015.7181883
