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Citation
(2002), "National Instruments new Motion Assistant accelerates motion control development", Assembly Automation, Vol. 22 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2002.03322cad.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
National Instruments new Motion Assistant accelerates motion control development
Keywords: Motion control
Engineers and scientists now can use National Instruments Motion Assistant, a new development tool that automatically generates LabVIEW code and improves development productivity. This tool helps build applications that use motors and positioning devices and is for use in a variety of applications ranging from biotech laboratory research to optoelectronics manufacturing (see Plate 7).
Plate 7 National instruments new Motion Assistant™
is a flexible and easy-to-use development tool for building and prototyping
motion applications. Combined with LabVIEW™, LabWindows™ /CVI, or
Measurement Studio™, engineers and system integrators can use this software
tool to create a development environment for motion applications ranging from
simple single-axis motions to demanding multi-axis motions
With NI Motion Assistant, users can also quickly develop code recipes for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++ with Measurement Studio, National Instruments set of fully integrated measurement components. Combined with either LabVIEW or Measurement Studio, Motion Assistant helps engineers create motion applications ranging from simple single-axis motions to demanding multi-axis motions.
With the NI Motion Assistant point-and-click interface, engineers and scientists can quickly program and prototype motion systems to reduce development time. This new development tool deploys prototypes into applications and easily adds special placeholders for integrated components such as vision or data acquisition. NI Motion Assistant also works with NI motion controllers for open or closed-loop motion control and interactive creation of each co-ordinated point-to-point, circular, or contoured move in the sequence.
For more information contact NI. Tel: (01635) 523545; Fax: (01635) 523154; E-mail: info.uk@mi.com; www.mi.com/uk