Research Article

Real-Time Control System for Improved Precision and Throughput in an Ultrafast Carbon Fiber Placement Robot Using a SoC FPGA Extended Processing Platform

Table 3

Performance comparisons between the different solutions.

Metrics/solutionCutting speedCutting precisionResponse time

BoxPC-based solution400 mm/s1 mm2.5 ms/cycle
MCU-based solution1000 mm/s0.1 mm250 us/cycle
Proposed solution1500 mm/s0.05 mm50 us/cycle
Gain in performance3.75x20x50x