How to generate digital pulses to run stepper motor in a sinusoidal motion profile using NI DAQ 6229 card

Hi,
         I need to make a stepper motor undergo rotary oscillation with a sinusoidal motion profile. As it nears the extreme points it should decelerate and finally slow down to zero velocity and then it should reverse direction and accelerate until it reaches the other extremity where it should slow down and stop and reverse direction and repeat this motion.
        The hardware is NI DAQ 6229 and the stepper motor can be controlled using digital Hi-Low (1,0) pulses. For each high pulse(1's) the motor turns 1 step. I am able to generate a analog sine wave and convert it to digital data using Analog-to-Digital.vi But i am not able to convert the digital data to a stream of 1's and 0's in the correct sequence to get the sinusoidal profile with the amplitude and frequency i require.
        The direction of rotation can be changed by giving a pulse to another input of the stepper motor. So only half cycle of sine wave needs to be generated and it can be replayed after changing the direction to get the full sinusoidal profile.
Any ways of making this approach work or any new approaches to this problem would be helpful. Thank You.
Regards,
Prabu.
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Hi,
I finally figured out a way to do it. The analog sine wave is converted to digital and sampled. Consecutive values are compared and if the least significant bit(LSB) changes then a pulse is sent to the stepper motor to turn one step.
I have included the sub-VI's that accomplish it for the particular stepper motor and connector block i have. The front panel of both sub-VI's are quite messy but the block diagrams should be much clearer. The sub-VI's get their inputs from a third VI which i have not included. So take a look at the VI connector panel to figure it out. Hope this helps. Kinda messy but worked out fine in the end for my application.
Thanks again for all the help. I appreciate it very much.
Regards,
Prabu Sellappan
Graduate Student
Aerospace and Mechanical Enggineering
University of Southern California
Attachments:
start motor test waveform dtest.vi ‏73 KB
sine profile generation subVI.vi ‏41 KB

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