Design and implementation of a serial communication for electric drives operating in master and slave mode

The thesis is focused on the study and implementation of trapezoidal trajectories for the handling of a Master and Slave Electrical Axis. To ensure a proper synchronization, it is also developed a serial communication between the two electrical drives. This experimental activity is the result of a project collaboration with L3Harris Calzoni. It is located in Bologna (Italy) and is a leader company in Aerospace and Defence systems for naval handling in the military field. The desired laws of motion were first tested using MATLAB and then implemented on the real electric drive. As the simulations produced great results, the next step was to establish a serial communication between the Master and Slave using a UART peripheral. This allowed for management of synchronization and address possible issue scenarios of the Electrical Axis. This control solution was implemented for a STM32 embedded system, written in C language. In conclusion, several tests on a Electrical Axis have been performed. The test bench used was useful to simulate the real scenario of the final application. All the experimental results have been recorded by using a graphical interface software developed by Calzoni.