Flexible FPGA-based controller architecture for five-fingered dexterous robot hand with effective impedance control

  • Z. P. Chen
  • , N. Y. Lii
  • , K. Wu
  • , H. Liu
  • , Z. X. Xue
  • , M. H. Jin
  • , Y. W. Liu
  • , S. W. Fan
  • , T. Lan

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Abstract

Several practical issues associated with achieving effective impedance performance in the finger joint space and stable grasping on a five-fingered dexterous hand are investigated in this work. A Multiprocessor structure based on field programming gate array (FPGA) is proposed to realize the high-level hand impedance controller. The key feature of the hardware system is a dual-processor architecture based controller, one of which is used for data communication control and the other for joint and object level control. High speed (200μs cycle time) multipoint low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) serial data bus communication between each finger and the controller, Ethernet communication between monitor PC and controller, are all implemented on a single FPGA chip. Experimental results and simulation with a five-fingered dexterous robot hand demonstrate that the controller architecture is able to achieve the desired robot hand impedance control performance and effective stable grasping.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2009
Pages1063-1068
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2009 - Guilin, China
Duration: 19 Dec 200923 Dec 2009

Publication series

Name2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2009

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin
Period19/12/0923/12/09

Keywords

  • Dexterous hand
  • FPGA
  • Flexible communication system
  • Grasping
  • Impedance control

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