CyboSoft Delivers High-Speed and High-Accuracy Control with NI CompactRIO

“For this application, CompactRIO was extremely critical,” said CyboSoft CEO Dr. George Cheng. “Our embedded MFA controllers running in LabVIEW Real-Time along with NI SoftMotion running in LabVIEW FPGA now offer an off-the-shelf, high-speed, and high-accuracy adaptive control solution matched only by custom hardware.”

Author

CyboSoft is the leader in control technology serving the worldwide process control, building control, and equipment control markets. CyboSoft’s patented Model-Free Adaptive (MFA) control technology for automatically controlling physical processes is a major breakthrough. No other comparable technology possesses all the attributes of MFA.

Headquartered in Rancho Cordova, a suburb of Sacramento, California, CyboSoft, General Cybernation Group, Inc. was formed in 1994 as a California corporation. By working with leaders in almost every sector of the industry, CyboSoft's MFA controllers are becoming the next generation mainstream process controllers to significantly benefit industry and society.

Industry

Industrial Process and Motion Control

Product

CompactRIO, LabVIEW, LabVIEW FPGA, LabVIEW Real-Time

The Challenge

CyboSoft (www.cybosoft.com), a National Instruments Alliance Partner offering Model-Free Adaptive (MFA) Control Toolset software for NI LabVIEW, needed a solution that combined ultra high-speed analog control and high data accuracy for demanding aerospace applications. MFA controllers do not require process models, which often are difficult to develop and maintain. Once installed, no controller tuning is required. MFA users have achieved a significant return on investment due to improved product quality, higher efficiency, and reduced energy use.

CyboSoft embedded MFA controllers, integrated within NI LabVIEW Real-Time for high-speed control in various complex systems, offer an integrated control solution. Now, with reconfigurable I/O (RIO) technology, the MFA controllers in LabVIEW deliver unprecedented precision and speed.



CyboSoft MFA controllers running in CompactRIO offer high-speed control loop rates (less than 50 microseconds) and highly reliable I/O data accuracy (16-bit analog inputs and outputs). This performance and accuracy, which is crucial for aerospace applications, was previously unattainable with off-the-shelf hardware.

The Solution

The First General-Purpose Adaptive Motion Control Solution

The CyboSoft MFA controller virtual instruments (VI) integrated with the new NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW running in NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware now offer high-speed and high-accuracy adaptive motion control. NI SoftMotion includes functions for trajectory generation, spline interpolation, position and velocity PID control, and encoder implementation on LabVIEW Real-Time and/or LabVIEW FPGA. This combined solution is the first general-purpose adaptive motion control solution able to deal with large Tau-T Ratio problems that exist in high-speed control applications in which mechanical delay cannot be avoided. RIO technology, NI SoftMotion, and MFA controllers replace the custom-built motion control hardware and drastically reduce the development time and cost of designing custom hardware.

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For more information about this application, contact George Cheng at gscheng@cybosoft.com.

CyboSoft and MFA are registered trademarks of CyboSoft, General Cybernation Group Inc.

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