Development of a Soft-Computer Numerical Control System for Micro-Electrochemical Machining
- 1 Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Abstract
Problem statement: In this study a kind of soft Computer Numerical Control (soft-CNC) system for micro Electrochemical Machining (micro-ECM) based on RT-Linux platform is developed. Approach: Dual-kernel structure of System is adopted: Linux and RT-Linux are used to realize timesharing tasks and real-time tasks separately. Results: The CNC Graphical User Interface (GUI) is designed by Qt and runs on Linux core space. Based on the hard real-time facilities provided by RT-Linux, the real-time tasks, including the gap detection task, gap adjustment task, interpolating task and other real-time control tasks are implemented. The Shared Memory (SHM) and RT-FIFO were adopted to construct the communication between the GUI and real-time tasks. Conclusion: A few experiments of various micro structures micro electrochemical milling on stainless steel are introduced to validate the performance of the system. The process and the results implied that the soft-CNC System is Real-time, stable and reasonable.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajnsp.2010.51.55
Copyright: © 2010 Yukui Wang, Hui Chen, Zhenlong Wang, Zhiwei Zhou and Debin Shan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Soft computer numerical control
- micro Electrochemical Machining (micro-ECM)
- Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Shared Memory (SHM)
- Block Electrical Discharge Grinding (BEDG)
- dual-kernel architecture
- electrical parameters