Vision Builder for AI

[Baseball123]

Trying to control 

AKM12C-ANCNC-00 BLDC Motor with SFD,

4000RPM@160VDC, 1.08Nm

Using Vision Builder for AI. Students at UNCC working on a design project and we were told it was possible to do but have not been able to find how to control the motors moving our camera.

[ZachAttack]

Vision Builder AI doesn't have any built in functionality to actually control the motor, but there are a variety of methods to send signals to your motor.  For all of these options, you will need to make sure you have a motor drive, and some sort of motion controller.  Some drives are also capable of doing the control.  If you are using one of NI's controllers to send commands to the drive, you will need to use the NI-Motion drivers.  Vision Builder for AI has multiple capabilities for communicating externally:

1. Run a LabVIEW VI.  You can program the movement in LabVIEW and trigger the start of the VI using Vision Builder.  You can set global variable values in Vision Builder to be used in your VI.
2. Send a pulse or a trigger to begin motion.  This would require your motion hardware to be programmed and ready to act when the trigger is sent.
3. Serial I/O.  If you have a controller/drive that communicates via serial, you can send commands straight to the drive.

Further recommendations can be made depending on the motion hardware you have.