Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
Hi George,
The scale factor is there to allow for the fact that the .RRBV field of
the motor record is an integer. This lets you work in floating point
engineering units in the PMAC, and scales the coordinate system axis
position value before sending it to the coordinate system axis motor
record.
You can control this scale factor value using the
pmacSetCoordStepsPerUnit IOC shell command if you want something other
than the default value. See below for an example.
<st.cmd>
...
epicsEnvSet("PPMAC_IP", "192.168.0.201")
epicsEnvSet("PPMAC_SSH_PORT", "PPMAC_SSH")
epicsEnvSet("PPMAC_PORT", "PPMAC1")
epicsEnvSet("PPMAC_CS2_PORT", "CS2")
...
# Attach to the SSH port
#drvAsynPowerPMACPortConfigure(port_name, host_address, username,
password, priority, noAutoConnect, noProcessEos)
drvAsynPowerPMACPortConfigure("$(PPMAC_SSH_PORT)", "$(PPMAC_IP)",
"root", "deltatau", 0, 0, 0)
# Configure Model 3 controller driver
# powerPmacCreateController(controller_port, low_level_port, address,
axes, moving_poll, idle_poll)
pmacCreateController("$(PPMAC_PORT)", "$(PPMAC_SSH_PORT)", 0 , 32, 100,
200)
...
# Set up for running coordinate system
#pmacCreateCS(coordinate_system_port, controller_port_name,
coordinate_system_number, motion_program_number)
pmacCreateCS("$(PPMAC_CS2_PORT)", "$(PPMAC_PORT)", 2, 2)
# Create the coordinate system axes
#pmacCreateCSAxes(coordinate_system_port, num_coordinate_system_axes)
pmacCreateCSAxes("$(PPMAC_CS2_PORT)", 9)
# Define coordinate step resolution
#pmacSetCoordStepsPerUnit(coordinate_system_port, cs_axis,
counts_per_egu)
pmacSetCoordStepsPerUnit("$(PPMAC_CS2_PORT)", 8, 1000000)
...
</st.cmd>
Finally, you should set the MRES value in the relevant motor record to
1/scale_factor to show the position in the motor record in the same
units as the PMAC coordinate system.
Hope that helps.
Wayne
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:51:10PM +0000, George Nicolas Kontogiorgos via Tech-talk wrote:
> Dear Giles,
>
> Hope this e-mail finds you well.
>
> I am working on a custom tripod system with its own kinematics. The hardware I am using is Power PMAC, as before with slits (Those e-mails about DMOV bug).
>
> I had a problem in this project with scale factors. I am giving you my configuration to illustrate the problem:
>
>
> * Q89 = -24383899 (read on Power PMAC IDE)
> * MRES = 1 (This value was set to this in order to debug my problems)
> * SREV = 1
>
> With this values I got 2147483648 with caget on my configured virtual motor. When I set MRES = 50e-6 mm/step (My encoder resolution) I got the correct value with caget instead of a factor 1e+4. So I started to search where is this factor and I found scale_=10000; on pmacCSAxis.cpp, line 24. Just for test, I changed this value to 1 and my caget get the correct answer.
>
> Am I setting something wrong or there is a bug on this hardcoded scale_? Why there is a hardcoded scale factor? Note that 2147483648 is the saturated negative value for 2 complement with 32 bits because my Q89*1e4 is too big.
>
> Best regards
> George Nicolas Kontogiorgos
> Electrical Engineer
> Beamline Software Group (SOL)
> Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS)
> www.lnls.cnpem.br<http://www.lnls.cnpem.br/>
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