Design and experience with the WS/HS assembly movement using labview VIS, national instrument motion controllers, and compumotor electronic drive units and motors

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2001

OSTI ID:975516

Day, L A ^[1]; Gilpatrick, J D ^[2]; Gruchalla, M ^[3]; Martinez, D G ^[4]; O'Hara, J F ^[5]; Shurter, R B ^[6]; Stettler, M W ^[7]; Valdiviez, R ^[8]; Barr, D S ^[9]

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1. Lisa A.
2. John Douglas
3. Michael
4. Derwin G.
5. James F.
6. Robert B.
7. Matthew W.
8. Robert
9. Dean S.

The Low-Energy Demonstration Accelerator (LEDA), designed and built at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is part of the Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT) program and provides a platform for measuring high-power proton beam-halo formation. The technique used for measuring the beam halo employs nine combination Wire Scanner and Halo Scraper (WS/HS) devices. This paper will focus on the experience gained in the use of National Instrument (NI) LabVIEW VIs and motion controllers, and Compumotor electronic drive units and motors. The base configuration couples a Compumotor motor driven by a Parker-Hannifin Gemini GT Drive unit. The drive unit is controlled by a NI PXI-7344 controller card, which in turn is controlled by a PC running custom built NI LabVIEW VIs. The function of the control VI's is to interpret instructions from the main control system, the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS), and carry out the corresponding motion commands. The main control VI has to run all nineteen WS/HS motor axes used in the accelerator. A basic discussion of the main accelerator control system, EPICs which is hosted on a VXI platform, and its interface with the PC based LabVIEW motion control software will be included.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 975516
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-01-3138; TRN: US1006722
• Resource Relation: Conference: Submitted to: 2001 Particle Accelerator Conference, June 18-22, 2001, Chicago
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
CONFIGURATION
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DESIGN
LANL
MOTORS
PHYSICS
PRODUCTION
PROTONS
SCRAPERS
TRITIUM