Low-latency wireless data transfer for motion control

  • Authors:

  • Jeroen De Boeij;Maarten Haazen;Peter Smulders;Elena Lomonova

  • Affiliations:

  • Electromechanics and Power Electronics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Radiocommunications Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Radiocommunications Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Electromechanics and Power Electronics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Control Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper discusses a new approach for wireless motion control. Existing wireless techniques suffer from large closed loop delays of several milliseconds, which is unacceptable in precision motion systems. These large delays are mainly caused by the protocol used, since these are optimized for transferring large amounts of data, not to minimize transmission delay. A new protocol and wireless system are proposed that reduce the closed loop transmission delay to less than 300 microseconds. The system has been verified in a real control system, and measurements show the performance, which is more than ten times better than existing techniques.