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The developed solution for designing an affordable manipulator to be used for teaching proposes where students get to use an FPGA and they can implement FOC for the motors.

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Affordable Manipulator With FPGA-driven FOC

Introduction

Robotics can be prohibitively expensive and complex, preventing robotics students from learning about them. The goal of this project was to design an affordable, easy to use robot arm that would help solve these problems. The project was split into four parts: the electrical design, the mechanical design, the Field Oriented Control (FOC) implementation, and the simulation. Each of these projects' parts will be discussed in order below.

This repository supports trainings at the ROS-Industrial training centre at Fontys University of Applied Sciences for the Adaptive Robotics minor (ROSIN EP FREROS project)

This Educational Project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the project ROSIN with the grant agreement No 732287.

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Project structure

  • Electrical Design: Within this folder you will find schematics, hardware documentation that was selected for the affordable manipulator.

  • Mechanical Design: Within this folder you will find the proof of concept of the manipulator's mechanical design, alongside some design hardware selection documentation.

  • FieldOrientedControl: Within this folder you will find the FOC implementation within FPGA boards. The files there is a simulink model of the controller and motors.

  • Simulation: Within this folder you will find the simulation of the affordable manipulator in Unity. The project files for the communication between ROS and Unity, and the proof of concept of an GUI to interface with the simulation.

There is a final report available in this repository, which is meant to be the compiled version of our results and findings

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