Teaching of CNC and CAD/CAM technologies has recently taken a great importance, due to their development, to the great number of solutions available on the market, and to the frequent updates. Nevertheless, one of the most urgent need is to improve the quality of education coping with a rapidly growing number of students. Nowadays, in comparison to the past, many Open-Source technical solutions, both hardware and software, are available to realise easily and cheaply some scaled-down prototypes of numerical control machine tools: these are able to work perfectly and can be employed as a learning method. This paper shows some past experiences regarding the development of some degree thesis works. In particular, it is shown how to implement a numerical control (LinuxCNC) in two specific cheap embedded systems (Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black). In this way, a student has the possibility of simulating the working of a complete Numerical Control and of learning interactively its way of programming. The final result and student response have shown an excellent effectiveness of these experiences and easy to use as powerful tool in engineering education.

LO VALVO, E. (2015). Low‐cost, High‐Capability, Embedded Systems for CNC Education and Research. In Proceedings of AITEM 2015. Palermo : Associazione Italiana di Tecnologia Meccanica (A.I.Te.M.).

Low‐cost, High‐Capability, Embedded Systems for CNC Education and Research

LO VALVO, Ernesto
2015-01-01

Abstract

Teaching of CNC and CAD/CAM technologies has recently taken a great importance, due to their development, to the great number of solutions available on the market, and to the frequent updates. Nevertheless, one of the most urgent need is to improve the quality of education coping with a rapidly growing number of students. Nowadays, in comparison to the past, many Open-Source technical solutions, both hardware and software, are available to realise easily and cheaply some scaled-down prototypes of numerical control machine tools: these are able to work perfectly and can be employed as a learning method. This paper shows some past experiences regarding the development of some degree thesis works. In particular, it is shown how to implement a numerical control (LinuxCNC) in two specific cheap embedded systems (Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black). In this way, a student has the possibility of simulating the working of a complete Numerical Control and of learning interactively its way of programming. The final result and student response have shown an excellent effectiveness of these experiences and easy to use as powerful tool in engineering education.
Settore ING-IND/16 - Tecnologie E Sistemi Di Lavorazione
AITEM 2015 - XII Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Tecnologia Meccanica
Palermo
7-9 Settembre 2015
XII
2015
10
Online
COMITATO ORGANIZZATORE Università di Palermo: Fabrizio Micari (Chairman); Antonio Barcellona; Manfredi Bruccoleri; Gianluca Buffa; Luigi Cannizzaro; Rosanna Di Lorenzo; Livan Fratini; Giuseppe Ingarao; Umberto La Commare; Ernesto Lo Valvo; Toni Lupo; Attilio Masnata; Gianfranco Passannanti; Roberto Riccobono.
LO VALVO, E. (2015). Low‐cost, High‐Capability, Embedded Systems for CNC Education and Research. In Proceedings of AITEM 2015. Palermo : Associazione Italiana di Tecnologia Meccanica (A.I.Te.M.).
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