Motor/Motion Control Solutions

[Zaacha]

Hello,

I am looking for support on motor control.

I currently use Modbus to control the Kollmorgen drives we have at the Lab, but it is not as responsive as it needs to be.

What are people using to control drives with LabVIEW? Are you not using LabVIEW?

Thanks,

[BertMcMahan]

I like the Galil controllers for bigger stuff, and have had decent luck with Maxon controllers for smaller stuff, too. Anything time-critical will go on the controller itself, as Windows isn't nearly reliable enough for me to trust it for real-time control.

[Kyle97330]

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@Zaacha wrote:

I currently use Modbus to control the Kollmorgen drives we have at the Lab, but it is not as responsive as it needs to be.

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How "responsive" is "as it needs to be"?

Is it safe to assume you don't want to completely replace your existing motors and controllers, or do you have the budget for new controllers and motors if needed?

[santo_13]

Checkout GECO Motion - a motion controller specifically designed for LabVIEW - NI Community

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

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@Zaacha wrote:

What are people using to control drives with LabVIEW? Are you not using LabVIEW?

Thanks,

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In the past, I used NI Motion and was very happy with it. Nowadays, I use Nanotec drives controlled via RS232(RS485), and they work like a charm.

I have also worked with systems using B&R drives, but in those cases the B&R PLC uses ACOPOS drives, so I simply communicate via OPC UA, which works well too.

In general, almost any drive can be controlled with LabVIEW. The only question is how "direct" the communication is: low-level communication (such as serial or TCP/IP) or higher-level communication through interfaces like OPC or OPC UA. Depends on Drives.

[Bob_Schor]

Combining the previous two suggestions, I believe that when NI dropped NI Motion (which Andrey liked), the "Motion Team" formed TENET Technologies, who makes GECO Motion (which Santhosh recommended).

Bob Schor