Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Pearson, Matthew R." <[email protected]> · Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:54:36 +0000

Hi Torsten,

> 
> The good news: I got it working!
> There is one question about the collision avoidance:
> If the Gap is 0 and the slit is closed, and I move the center
> there seems to be the risk for a collision, or better said,
> that one blade is slightly started earlier and "pusshing" the other
> one. I am not sure if this is a real-life problem.
> 

This used to be a real life problem at the SNS with some older slit designs. To avoid it we had to move the slit blades sequentially when moving the ‘center’ motor. Which blade moved first depended on which direction the center was being moved. However, almost all our slit assemblies now permit overlapping blades so it’s not an issue anymore.

Cheers,
Matt

> The other thing is that I need to check the calculation of the
> soft limits for the virtual motors.
> The most obvious is that the rule "Gap > 0" is not there.
> (And the other calculations need to be checked)
> I'll set up a system with a simulator.
> 
> And of course, we are setting up a system as well,
> where the synchronization is done in the motor controller.
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/03/18 18:20, Mooney, Tim M. wrote:
>> There is also, in the optics module, 2slit_soft.vdb, which uses soft motor records, instead of ao records, for center and width.
>> Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
>> Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
>> Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Goetze, Kurt A. <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:51:13 AM
>> *To:* Torsten Bögershausen; [email protected]
>> *Subject:* RE: Controling a slit system with 2 hard and 4 soft motorrs
>> Hi Torsten,
>> The synApps optics module has support for this type of thing:
>> https://github.com/epics-modules/optics/blob/master/opticsApp/Db/2slit.db
>> Kurt
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Torsten Bögershausen
>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2018 10:40 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Controling a slit system with 2 hard and 4 soft motorrs
>> Hej motorists,
>> I recently learned about the transform record, which can be used to control a slit with 2 physical axes in the way that you can set the values for GAP and CENTER and the position of the physical blades are calculated. (Or vice versa)
>> Does anybody have a super-duper-luxus template file which uses 4 soft motors together with some calc and transform records ?
>> Thanks in advance
>> /Torsten
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System