Drive and control machine, second exploration

It is easy to embrace change, but not easy to practice it.

Li Yanhua, head of robotics at Astro Boy, said: As the company develops more business scenarios, in the actual deployment work, technicians have noticed that robots using standard control cabinets have begun to be more and more limited by space, environment and other factors.

In short, the controller and driver used by the traditional industrial robot system are mostly independently developed, and the communication mode is mainly based on the pulse or standard communication bus, and there may be gaps in the subsequent debugging, use and optimization, and the axis synchronization of the robot cannot be fully guaranteed.

By integrating the robot controller and servo driver in hardware, the miniaturization and integration of hardware are realized.

In addition to the problems encountered in actual delivery, the “intelligent trend” of the industrial robot industry is also promoting the upgrading of Azonwood robot products.

By building the hardware platform of integrated drive and control, it also provides the basis for the intelligent control. The data of the robot controller and servo drive can be accessed more quickly, on this basis, it is possible to provide further intelligent control methods.

Therefore, in the face of the upcoming intelligent trend of the industrial robot industry, Astro Boy robots have also started the layout early and initiated the research and development of related technologies related to drive and control.

Li Yanhua said that Astro Boy robot’s upcoming drive and control machine brings together the company’s ten years of technology and experience accumulation in the field of industrial robots, and the control of the hardware level is more profound.

In response to the problem of excessive volume in field deployment, the new product drive control machine has been greatly reduced compared with the large volume of the traditional control cabinet, and the field deployment is more flexible and the performance is better.

In terms of hardware configuration scheme, Astro Boy robot adopts ARM+FPGA CPU architecture drive and control integration scheme. Combined with the internal high-speed parallel bus, servo drive, motion control and other functions can be integrated to achieve the purpose of high-speed control.

In addition to hardware, the development team is working hard on the software level.

Li Yanhua said that the core of the development team optimized the new product from two aspects: first, the human-computer interaction experience is improved, and customers can directly control the robot in the operating system interface; Secondly, the development team expanded the programming and debugging module of the background program, reducing the operation threshold of interaction and maintenance personnel. In the future, graphical programming, AI programming and other forms will also be added.

In general, “drive and control integration” as a new technical route and technical solution in the field of automation, is miniaturized, modular, complete machine and other characteristics, to help customers reduce product design time, improve work efficiency, and ultimately achieve cost reduction and efficiency.