Research on control software design platform for CNC system

To meet the urgent need for product diversity and short cycle in control software development of CNC system, a software design platform is proposed in this paper. The platform integrates several software tools using for requirement description, modeling, model parsing, functional simulation and performance verification respectively, which can fully meet the various requirements in each stage of the design process. Specifically, requirement description tool is provided to end users, which aims at facilitating accurate and overall description of system development demands. Modeling tool is used to construct the design environment for CNC system. Model parsing tool deals with the generated design model and translates it to corresponding abstract form. Function/performance simulation adaptation tools transform abstract model to simulation models with recognizable format for specific simulation software. The proposed integrated tool chain covers the whole process of control software design from analysis to verification and effectively improves the efficiency of the control system development. Experiments are carried out on the design for a lathe control system, by which feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed design platform can be proved.