Paper Info
Title
A Paradigm of Government/Industry/University Cooperation: A PSoC Controller for a NASA Robotic Arm.
Abstract
As part of an engineering capstone design course, a team of five students designed and built a controller for a robotic arm supplied as a technical platform by NASA. Control hardware and development environment tools were provided by Cypress Semiconductor forming a cooperative triad between NASA, Cypress and Michigan State University to fully sponsor this project. The arm uses a mixture of servomotors and DC motors, which require different control signals. Most microcontrollers would require a number of peripheral devices to generate the analog signals needed by the DC motors and the pulse-width modulated signals to drive the servomotors. The Cypress Programmable System-on- a-Chip (PSoC), however, provided a unique and manageable single-chip solution This paper gives a high-level overview of the project and of how the PSoC was configured for this application.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/MSE.2007.11
MSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
cypress semiconductor,cypress programmable system-on,michigan state university,engineering capstone design course,development environment tool,nasa robotic arm,different control signal,dc motor,robotic arm,cooperative triad,control hardware,psoc controller,university cooperation,system on a chip,programmable controllers,robots,development environment,robot arm,dc motors,chip,hardware,robot control,microcontroller,system on chip,servomotors,art,microcontrollers,government,servomotor
Robotic arm,Control theory,DC motor,Control engineering,Microcontroller,Programmable logic controller,Engineering,Robot,PSoC,Servomotor
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2849-X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Baker100.34
Erik Goodman214515.19
Patrick Kane301.01
Michael Shanblatt401.01