Motion Control Applications in large Facilities Workshop 17th to 23rd October, 2015 - Melbourne, Australia

The workshop is intended to discuss any subject related to motion control that can be shared. It follows these guidelines::

• Experiences in motion control at the different sites: radiation damage to encoders, in house development verses industrial product, system performance validation including reliability, obsolescence management .
• Technical solutions in software and in low level hardware: kinematic transforms, complex trajectories, protection including collision avoidance, multi-axes and multi controller synchronization, embedded and/or hosted motion features.
• Motion control challenges: submicron positioning, continuous and synchronous motion control and data detector's acquisition, Motion Control and Sample  Environment
• Automation: How should motion control fit into  the increasing automation demands of high throughout beamlines

The first session of the workshop aims at presenting each participants and his institutes in a short 3 minutes presentation (3 or 4 slides) and should be of the format below

Short description of the facilities' main purpose and activities.

How motion control is integrated into the activities of the institute (organization, technologies, installed base etc.)?

What are the current technical challenges or concerns in the motion control area at the facility?

What would you like to hear and get out of the workshop?

The others sessions are technical 10 minutes talk about project status, Hardware projects or Software projects.

The workshop was a success with 56 attendees from 26 countries and 16 Institutes. Also 4 trading companies contribute in these interesting exchanges.

What was achieved?

A very useful exchange of experiences, ideas and recommendations. The workshop went on until 6:30 and nearly 50 participants stayed until the end.

What next?

As a community we need to decide upon the best way to exchange ideas and information on a more regular basis.

We need to look at the format for future workshops and if we need to create more space dedicated to free discussions with fewer formal presentations

Please Find below the slides of the contributions :

Introduction : Brian Nutter

Morning Session 1 :

(5.97 Mo)

Morning Session 2 :

• REVOLUTION Status (739.4 Ko) : Shu Zhang
• NSLS-II Motion Control (547.78 Ko) : Wayne Lewis
• Motion Systems of Status at SESAME (5.6 Mo) : Yazeed Momani
• Motion Control Challenges for laser At ELI beamlines (2.42 Mo) : Naylon Jack Alexander 
• The CLS Motion Control Mix (56.2 Ko) : Glen Wright
• Overview of Motion Control on The KAT-7 and MeerKat Radio Telescopes (818.72 Ko) : Lance Williams
• Management of Motion Control In Large Scale System (1.86 Mo) : Suren Karabekyan

Afternoon Session 1 :

• Motion Control Applications : Dimitry Bolkovitanyov
• IcePap (1.65 Mo): Nicolas Janvier
• Complex Kinematics and Superimposed Motion (2.52 Mo) : Dragutin Maier-Manojolovic
• Motion Control Fail Safe Requirements (1.29 Mo) : Harald Kleines
• Nanoprobe Project - Sample Stage Control (2.61 Mo) : Christer Engblom
• PAnda Motion Control Collaboration  (754.7 Ko): Yves-Marie Abiven/Isa Uzun

Afternoon Session 2 :

• : Nader Asfer
• Faisibility Study for a fast Shutter and Slit System (1.24 Mo) : Paul Barron
• Status and New development in Motion Control at BESSY-II (1.55 Mo) : Ervis Suijoti
• First Steps with Flyscan (523.08 Ko) : Henriqué De Almeida
• Iterative Development of the Generic Continuous Scans In SARDANA (737.81 Ko) : Zbigniew Reszela
• An EPICS Solution that can provide a comprehensive and High Performance Motor Control System for Use at Synchrotron and Other Research Laboratories (738.69 Ko) : Mark Clift

Conclusion