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Motor Control

motor.*

Classes:

  • stpMotor –

    Minimal non-GUI motor controller for Effusive z-stack acquisition.

Functions:

  • createBackend –

    Create the requested motor backend.

  • moveToPosition –

    Move the motor backend to an absolute position.

  • stopMotion –

    Best-effort motor stop helper.

stpMotor

Bases: handle

Minimal non-GUI motor controller for Effusive z-stack acquisition.

This class wraps the subset of the Zaber serial protocol needed by the MATLAB z-stack state machine (moveTo, home, stopMotor, and getCurrentPositionMm). It uses MATLAB's modern serialport transport.

createBackend 

(useDummyMotor: logical)

Create the requested motor backend.

Input arguments:

  • useDummyMotor

    (logical) –

    Whether to create the dummy backend instead of a real motor backend.

Output arguments:

  • motorBackend

    ( struct ) –

    Motor backend descriptor with fields used by the z-stack runtime.

moveToPosition 

(motorBackend: struct, targetPositionMm: double)

Move the motor backend to an absolute position.

Input arguments:

  • motorBackend

    (struct) –

    Backend descriptor returned by effusive.motor.createBackend.

  • targetPositionMm

    (double) –

    Absolute target position in millimeters.

Output arguments:

  • motorBackend

    ( struct ) –

    Updated backend descriptor.

stopMotion 

(motorBackend: struct)

Best-effort motor stop helper.

Input arguments:

  • motorBackend

    (struct) –

    Backend descriptor returned by effusive.motor.createBackend.