A Robot Arithmetic Processor Concept for Cartesian Closed-Loop Control with Prescribed Dynamics

The hardware implementation of a cartesian closed-loop control scheme will be presented which allows to define the dynamic behaviour of each degree of freedom of the cartesian coordinate system in a prescribed sense. The control system at joint level is designed by multivariate design methods with an additional feedforward component using the concept of inverse dynamics. To achieve high accuracy for cartesian motions quasi-continuous control mode with cartesian sampling periods of not greater than 5 ms is aimed at. A special purpose processor for calculation of kinematic and dynamic terns is designed and integrated into a multiprocessor architecture. This implementation concept with Robot Arithmetic Processor provides the necessary computational power and allows real-time cartesian closed-loop control which is also essential for cartesian sensory control tasks.