Option to reduce stage speed and acceleration in Harmony

What is the challenge?

Most users are happy with a stage that travels as fast as possible. But for some applications, like imaging of organoids, the current speed is too fast. The organoids start moving, due to the fast travel speed and acceleration/deceleration. This can lead to motion blur or to a situation where objects that have been identified in a PreciScan PreScan, are gone at the ReScan.

What is the impact?

work with organoids/spheroids can be heavily impacted.

Describe your idea

Implement the option to change Stage speed and acceleration. This could for instance be a 5 or 7 step slider (Default setting: highest speed) that allows the user to change stage speed if necessary.

Requested by

I have been asked for this by an associate scientist at Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen and by a senior scientist at SciLife lab in Stockholm.