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Opal-RT Mechatronics and Advanced Controls Customers
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Canadian Space Agency, Space Technologies Department |
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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is currently running a very complex robotic training system using RT-LAB. The 6-node Opal-RT system is used to simulate the robot controller and the end manipulator of the robotic arm, with contact-force measurement at 1 ms sampling rates. Key requirements were openness, flexibility, scalability, re-usability, and minimal maintenance needs.The RT-LAB system was investigated and demonstrated at the satisfaction of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) inspectors, SPAR (the manufacturer of the International Space Station robotic arm, now called MDRobotics) and CAE (provider of the virtual reality system and dynamic model of the space station). A Complete Integration Solution: from a SIMULINK Block Diagram to OPAL-RT Distributed Real-Time Systemin no Time.
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"RT-LAB allowed us to run a complex space-robot controller in real-time. Its distributed capabilities were essential in acheiving real-time performance, while its flexibility and open architecture helped maximizing efficiency of the design team." - Jean-Claude Piedboeuf, Deputy Director Spacecraft Engineering, CSA
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NASA Glenn Research Center |
The Microgravity Science Division at NASA Glenn Research Center is responsible for planning, advocating, directing, and implementing space experiments in technology and microgravity science. This Division both conducts and sponsors ground-based scientific and technology studies that may lead to experiments in space. The focus of these efforts is to enhance the understanding of the role of gravity in a wide range of physical processes (ie. materials science, power, propulsion, combustion, fluid physics, plasma physics, etc.) This work is carried out by scientists in the external community and by scientists in this Division as well as in other Center organizations. The technology experiments for which the Division is responsible provide enabling technology for future space missions including the Space Station and the planned programs in Human Exploration and Development of Space Enterprise. A very significant and substantial part of the Division's effort is the design, buildup, testing, and integration of hardware for experiment packages to be launched aboard the Space Shuttle. This division is also responsible for planning the utilization of the Space Station for scientific and technological missions. This includes defining experimental facilities and developing experimental hardware for the Space Station.
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FRAUNHOFER Institute |
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK in Berlin has chosen an RT-LAB dual-processor distributed system with FireWire networking to research tele-robotic control manipulation, related to medical applications including surgical operation using robots in a virtual-reality simulation environment.
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Ingersoll Rand Torrington |
Ingersoll Rand's Torrington division is developing high-end bearing systems for paper and steel mills using RT-LABe, the embedded version of RT-LAB on PC/104. This project allows Torrington to communicate via Internet with their customers' bearing systems, and to perform remote diagnostics online and in real-time. RT-LAB and QNX were chosen after comparative evaluations of VME-based systems using VxWorks.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada |
Pratt &Whitney is using a VME version of RT-LAB as the real-time control platform for locomotive applications of its gas-turbine engines. The final step in this project, which included the development of drivers for I/O and RS-422 communications, saw RT-LAB in use in the actual turbine-controller in the production locomotive.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada in China |
Pratt & Whitney Canada was recently engaged by a China-based engineering company to develop a method of pumping gas through a pipeline using one of the company's standard gas turbine engines - the ST40. Opal-RT Technologies' RT-LAB proved to be ideal for use as a development platform, and was used by P&WC to develop the control system development environment for the project, as well as the integrated control system that is intended for field use.
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