Diseño, implementación y verificación de un controlador para robots educativos

[EN] This project briefly analyzes the scope and applications of Industrial Robotics, as well as the importance that this technical discipline has gained in the past decades. In addition, it proposes a modern platform to assist in teaching this discipline in colleges and universities. This new educational platform for the teaching of Industrial Robotics is based on the robotic systems from Rhino Robotics Ltd., using the existing robotic arms and replacing the control electronics by a newer, modern and yet backwards-compatible controller. In addition to the controller, this platform also provides new, up-to-date software utilities that are more intuitive than those provided with the old system. The work to be done consists essentially in receiving commands from a personal computer which the controller must interpret in order to control the motors of the robotic arm. The controller itself will be implemented as an embedded system based on microcontrollers. This requires the implementation of a communication protocol between the personal computer and the microcontroller, the design of a command interpreter, the design of the electronics for motor control using PWM and H-bridges, and the implementation of control techniques (more precisely, PID control). Hence, this project combines software and hardware design and integration techniques with motor control techniques and feedback control methods from Control Engineering, along with the kinematic analysis of the Rhino XR-4 robotic arm. 

Aplicación en tiempo real para el control de señales en empotrados

[ES] Este software pretende dar soporte a la monitorización y control de señales provenientes de distintos dispositivos electrónicos a través de un sistema empotrado con un sistema operativo en tiempo real que proporcione las herramientas necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos de tiempo que se plantean. Para ello la aplicación se divide en varios procesos encargados de la lectura y configuración de las distintas señales, control de eventos anómalos (interrupciones, fallos del sistema, etc),  almacenamiento en una base de datos de la información generada y una interfaz de usuario vía web que permita la monitorización del sistema en su conjunto.