EtherCAT-integrated Processing Machine with Full Local Task Redundancy

Integrated PC- and EtherCAT-based solution for special-purpose machine used in the automotive industry

Integrated PC-and EtherCAT-based solution for special-purpose machine used in the automotive industry Vehicle steering column shafts are very sensitive, yet important, components of automotive steering systems. Accordingly, high demands are placed on the production of these products. LCA Automation AG specializes in these types of assembly plants, and values the openness and flexibility of PC-b...

Thermal Intro Row Weed Control Optimized Machine with Image Processing

Farming organic vegetable and crops have grown as a market desiring commodity. Weed control in farms has been costly and laborous and it has always been hard to achieve a proper weeding. A few chemicals are commonly applied in organic farming. Thermal weeding with flame burners seems a good solution; however, it has its own drawbacks, such as; damaging the main crops, low performance, being inf...

Thermal Intro Row Weed Control Optimized Machine with Image Processing

Farming organic vegetable and crops have grown as a market desiring commodity. Weed control in farms has been costly and laborous and it has always been hard to achieve a proper weeding. A few chemicals are commonly applied in organic farming. Thermal weeding with flame burners seems a good solution; however, it has its own drawbacks, such as; damaging the main crops, low performance, being inf...

Fault Tolerance with Multiple Task Modular Redundancy

The redundant units in a classic N Modular Redundancy (NMR) system are employed solely for fault tolerance, making this technique inefficient. This paper introduces Multiple Task Modular Redundancy that allows an NMR system to have a higher throughput by exploiting, when no faults have occurred, the system’s redundancy. More than one group of replicated tasks are optimistically executed. This m...

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