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ZJUS-A
Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2007, Vol. 8 Issue (12): 1962-1970    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2007.A1962
Electrical & Electronic Engineering     
Implementation of a new PC based controller for a PUMA robot
FAROOQ M., WANG Dao-bo
College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
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Abstract  This paper describes the replacement of a controller for a programmable universal machine for assembly (PUMA) 512 robot with a newly designed PC based (open architecture) controller employing a real-time direct control of six joints. The original structure of the PUMA robot is retained. The hardware of the new controller includes such in-house designed parts as pulse width modulation (PWM) amplifiers, digital and analog controllers, I/O cards, signal conditioner cards, and 16-bit A/D and D/A boards. An Intel Pentium IV industrial computer is used as the central controller. The control software is implemented using VC++ programming language. The trajectory tracking performance of all six joints is tested at varying velocities. Experimental results show that it is feasible to implement the suggested open architecture platform for PUMA 500 series robots through the software routines running on a PC. By assembling controller from off-the-shell hardware and software components, the benefits of reduced and improved robustness have been realized.

Key words： Programmable universal machine for assembly (PUMA) robot      Computed torque control (CTC)      Pulse width modulation (PWM) amplifier      Graphical user interface (GUI)     
Received: 13 June 2007     
CLC:  TP2  
  TP311  
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FAROOQ M., WANG Dao-bo. Implementation of a new PC based controller for a PUMA robot. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2007, 8(12): 1962-1970.

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