Can Labview control equipment such as servomotors?

[Vipin S]

Hi!
I am new to LabVIEW products and have just started my PhD a month ago. My project involves recording EMG signals from muscles. So i need to be able to control 2 motors (from a software...maybe labview?)that would move a limb and while the limb is moving, i will be recording the EMG signals via electrodes. I have already bought a DAQCard-6062E with NI-DAQ Software to link up my electrodes to my laptop. But now i need to figure out if it is possible to use LabVIEW itself to link these 2 parameters:- control of motors and recording of resulting EMG signals from motion.
Thanks.

Message Edited by Support on 10-05-2007 09:55 AM

[Jochen]

Hello,

NI's motion controllers provide several features for the synchronisation of measurements and moves and they integrate very well into LabVIEW. Unfortunately you have decided to do these measurements with your laptop and this is not a good platform for motion control and synchronized measurements in general as there is no RTSI bus available for PCMCIA-based components apart from the fact that there are no PCMCIA-based motion controllers available.

If you could use a desktop PC with PCI components your task would be pretty simple but with the given setup your only chance would be to use an external motion controller and use the step signal or an encoder signal of this controller as an external scan clock for your 6062

Best regards,

Jochen Klier
National Instruments Germany