Sprecher
Beschreibung
Experimental scientists have always a need for high flexibility in realizing their setups. That poses a huge challenge for the engineers who try to catch up and have the goal to minimize the variety of devices or to standardize the interfaces between the components. This area of conflict mostly covers motion tasks, machine safety and environmental conditioning.
This talk touches some of the solutions that are currently under development or already in use at HZDR. Scientists and engineers work hand in hand to find the best matching system architecture.
One of the presented implementations is the software Motion-Control that is able to combine 2 types of industrial motion-controllers to one flexible user-interface.
Another solution is a device called piezo-rack, that was designed and built for connecting a high number of piezo/pico motors into one cabinet rack. The software interface is completely in our hand – we already integrated it into Karabo, EPICS and LabVIEW and have a TCP/IP interface for external control.
In the field of machine safety and environmental conditioning, we typically use reliable and safe industrial techniques like PLCs by Siemens communicating with industrial standardized protocols like OPC/UA or Profinet.
