How use an ESP motion controller to drive an actuator by using Labview program?

[whuili]

Our group bought a Universal Motion Conroller/Driver from Newport company and
its model is ESP 300. Right now, I am going to use it remotely and I want
to use Labview to compile the driving program. My thought is to move an
actuator step by step in x-axis and the length of step moving is 2cm.
After moving 40cm on x-axis from the beginning to the end, I will move the
actuator one step on y-axis. Then I moving from the beginning to the end
on x-axis again. I wonder whether somebody has such a labview program
or not. Or, has anybody other sample Labview programs for the
controller to control the moving? Can you provide them to me?

Thanks a lot.
Huili Wang

[Yusuf C]

Hello,

There are several examples written in LabVIEW to do what you are trying to do but they will only work with National Instruments motion controllers, as they use driver specific VIs. In order to use your controller with LabVIEW you'll need a shared library of some sort. Once you have this library you can program your controller in LabVIEW by making function calls referencing to its shared library. See built-in LabVIEW examples for 'Using External Code'.
I hope this helps. Let me know if you decide to go with one of National Instruments motion controllers instead and need help finding those examples I was referencing above.

Best regards,

Yusuf C.
Applications Engineering
National Instruments