Resumen de Diseño, construcción y evaluación de un sistema mecatrónico para implementar movimientos articulados en prototipo de rodilla.
José Olvera, Domingo Miranda, Hernando Chagolla, Agustín Barrera, Carlos Suárez
In this work, the design of a control system capable of controlling five DC motors, with gear reduction and incremental encoder, through a GUI (graphical user interface) is presented. It was realized on Lab View software, with the objective to controlling the freedom degrees that give movement to a mechatronic knee prototype, in real time. The module is based on a microcontroller PIC18F microchip series, which allows communication USB Full-speed, achieving data transfer speeds up to 12 Mbps, enough speed for this application. It controls both the speed and rotation of the geared motors.
The system works with a human-machine interface for testing the angular position which you want to reach. In a next stage the mechatronic model must be fully automated and able to simulate all the movements of a human knee, performing coordinated movements of each degree of freedom which will be coupled to the mechanical structure of the articulated model.
