Research on Architecture of the Prosthesis Shaping Equipment Control System

Abstract

In order to realize a high speed and high accuracy prosthesis shaping equipment (PSE) control system, this paper proposes a new software-hardware architecture of a five-axis high performance NC system. The software part of the proposed architecture follows the rules of the hierarchy and modularity. The inheritance, scalability, and stability are ensured on the whole system and local parts. According to the idea of modular design, the framework uses the client-server mode in the communication and scheduling level. With this way, the reliability of the module management is ensured. The hardware part of the proposed architecture consists of two main parts: the controller and I/O module. The controller is based on FPGA and uses PCI bus and IPC interface. The I/O module is based on ARM + CPLD and uses CAN bus to communicate with the controller. This paper also studies some key problems such as the driving signal producing mechanism. The results of prosthesis shaping equipment prototype show that the system which uses the proposed architecture can reach the positioning accuracy up to 0.02 mm and 3D typical surface cutting accuracy up to 0.02 mm, and this accuracy level already leads similar products in market.