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

fYear

2015

fDate

14-18 June 2015

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

133

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded Computing (MECO), 2015 4th Mediterranean Conference on

Conference_Location

Budva

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8999-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MECO.2015.7181883

Filename

7181883