How do I control a servo motor/controller system using Labview?

[dbmeor]

Got it.
Thanks for the help

Dan

[Sasidhar]

Dear Brian and Dan,

I am a research assistant in the biomedical engg. dept at Univ of Akron. I work on spine biomechanics and in that concern my prof wants to build this new flexibility spine test machine.....the idea basically is that we will have a motor (Danaher AKM22E w/ S20360 drive having velocity and torque control); this motor is intended to generate a max torque of +/- 7.5 Nm which is conveyed into linear motion via a ball spline that flexes or extenses a human spine segment.; This torque is read at the other end using a Transducer tech TRT-100 load cell. I am very new to all these control terms and LabVIEW as I am from a different background. Can anyone of you please help me getting started....Any sort of help would be really appreciated! Also, we are using the foll. components from LabVIEW,

1) NI PXI-7352 2-Axis FLEXMOTION(TM) Stepper/Servo motion Controller 

2) NI PXI-6251, M Series DAQ (16 Analog Inputs, 24 Digital I/O, Analog Outputs) with NI-DAQmx driver software. 

3) NI PXI-8108 Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz Controller with Windows vista (Downgraded to Windows XP) 

4) UMI-7764 as this is a third party motor

5) NI PXI-1050 PXI/SCXI Combination Chassis, Standard (120 V) 

Eagerly awaiting for some reply. Regards,

Sasi. 

[Eric_R]

Hi Uakron

Thank you for choosing National Instruments for your control needs. The following documentation should get you started. I recommend posting separately for each individual piece of your project in its respective boards to receive the most response's (IE data acquisition across the spine under our DAQ forums). It's also more easy to just pick up and work on individual portions of the project than it as a whole.

Pressure and Load Measurements: How- TO Guide:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/7138

 Measuring Strain with Strain Gauges:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3642

 Fundamentals of Motion Control:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3367