ThorLabs xy stage automation help

[two23]

Hi, 

I have an XY stage with two stepper motors from ThorLabs.  

 I would like the stage to do the following:

1) Move down 1cm
2) Move right 1 micron
3) Move up 1cm
4) Move right 1 mircon
5) Repeat steps 1-4 until stage has moved a total of 1cm across

6) Then have the stage move 1cm to the left
7) 1 micron down
8) One cm to the right
9) 1 micron down
10) repeat steps 6-10 until stage has moved a toral of 1 cm down

11) repeat steps 1-10 for 1000 layers

I am new to LabView and currently only have the attached program.  How can I go about doing this?

 Tom 

[Andrew McL]

Hi Two23,

Thank you for contacting National Instruments. I am afraid you will need to supply some more details  before we will be able to help you. Do you have a reference point to where you have got the Driver for this controller? I had a quick look at the Thorlabs website but I couldn't work out which controller you were refering to.

If you could provide the following details that would be much appreciated:

1. What is the model and name of this device you are trying to control?

2. What driver does this device need to use? From the looks of your VI, is this an ActiveX interface that you are trying to control?

3. Do you have any reference to the programming API  or any example programs that came with this controller?

If you don't want to upload this information yourself, please point us to a location on the web where we can locate this.

Many thanks, 

[two23]

1)ThorLabs apt Precision Motion Controller Model BDC103

2)  Driver not sure...yes it is an active X interface

 3) Attached is a PDF of examples

Thank you so much, 

Tom

[Andrew McL]

Hi Two23,

Thank you for the details you have provided. I had a look at the LabVIEW and APT guide document thta you sent in and I think I would start by trying to build the application it speaks about within this document. It is a very well written guide to get started with this controller. 

Try and build this program and understand what is going on with the code. You will need to have the driver installed for this device, this is refered to in the first document. 

Once you have this built, I would look at Appendix D of the Controller Info document as this details all of the available methods that you can run on this controller. 

If you have particular problems with how to control this device, you will need to speak to Thorlabs about how to go about programming their device. We can help you with specific LabVIEW problems.

I hope this helps,

Many thanks,

[Ypant99]

Hello,

I need help, Please help me anybody if you can able to help me.

I have one rotary encoder and 6 hall sensor, I need to synchronized all. I have made program but it not work properly.

Basically using hall sensor I need detect fault and which time that fault is detected I need that fault location using encoder where fault occurs. Could you please me on that I am also sharing my code along with this. 

Thanks.