Speaker
Mr
Anders Sandström
(European Spallation Source ERIC)
Description
A motion control software for EtherCAT hardware using the
open source EtherCAT master (www.etherlab.org) has
been developed.
The motion control software functionalities includes motor
record functionalities: positioning, jogging, homing and soft/hard limits.
Other functionalities supported by the motion control software are axis
synchronization, a scripting language for custom synchronization of
different axis, virtual axes, and interlocking.
An EPICS model 3 driver is used to interface the motor record,
and more development is ahead.
Primary author
Mr
Anders Sandström
(European Spallation Source ERIC)
Co-author
Torsten Bögershausen
(European Spallation Source ESS AB)
