Rapid Control Prototyping of Mechatronic Systems

This paper presents a new approach to the rapid prototyping of mechatronic control devices. The mechatronic control device as found in practice can be considered as a hybrid system: it is composed of a time-driven subsystem and an event-driven subsystem. For modeling of such a system a unified recursive approach is presented in this paper. The rapid logic control prototyping paradigm is illustrated by a simple case study that involves implementation on an in-house developed high-performance DSP/FPGA experimental platform