Hello Everyone,
My latest question is about Real-Time ETS. I
have been doing a fair amount of Data aquistion and simple machine
control using M-series cards, PCI-6052E, and PCI-6601. Any
example would be as follows.
I was controlling a simple DC liniear actutor,
monitoring its position from a Kyowa dial indicator using an AI from
the 6052E. I was controling the polarity of the voltage going to
the actuator with SSR DC output modules through an SC-2311. This
program worked great alowing me up to about 5hz at +-2mm with close to
0.2mm accuracy. The problem is my DAQ loop and Control loop had
to be relativy fast which chewed up alot of proccessing power and as
soon as Windows XP wanted to think about somthing else for a split
second my actuator would lose control and shoot past my target
distance. The longer XP was doing something else the farther I
would over/under shoot. I am blaming Mcafee for this but my
systems department is giving me a hard time about removing it.
Would I be able to setup a Real-Time target ETS PC to do all of the
grunt work of DAQ and control and just use a host PC to display the
data and allow user interaction with the software (change target values
& rate). Would the ETS PC work just as a normal PC running
labview and allow me to use my current selection of DAQ cards but
without the overhead of Windows? At this time I am not interested
in FPGA cards as they are a little pricey. I just want to be able
to aquire encoder, digitial, Analog signals and output digitial and
Analog signals with out haveing to wory about the reliability of
Windows.
Thanks for you responses in advnace and I appreciate all your help
Steve.
