Mechatronics Systems Lectures

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LabVIEW Introduction and Tutorials

LabVIEW 8.5 and 8.6 Getting Started Manual

Comparison between LabVIEW and C (link to NI website)

Brief Introduction to LabVIEW with Examples Relevant to the Unit (read at home and bring to LabVIEW tutorials)

LabVIEW Tutorial 1: Introduction and Basics

LabVIEW Tutorial 2: Arrays and Circular Buffer

LabVIEW Tutorial 3: Clusters and Finite State Machines (FSM)

LabVIEW Tutorial 4: Cicrcular Buffer Revisited. Example: Sound Recording
LabVIEW Tutorial 4: Example of Solution to Tutorial Problem

LabVIEW Tutorial 5: Advanced topics: Real Time Issues and Multithreading (interesting but not done during classes)
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Lectures and Tutorials (LECTOPIA Recordings: Go To WebCT)
WEEK 1 (2009)
    Lecture 1 (Introduction)

    Tutorial 1

Description
About Passive Infrared (PIR) motion detector
Example of PIR (patent by Edward Tom, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Tutorial 1 Quiz Answers

Read to prepare for a Quiz in Tutorial 2
Automotive cruise control: Short description for preparing a functional block diagram
Example: one of the first patents on automotive cruise control by R. Teetor
  Information about Australian patents

WEEK 2 (2009)
Lecture 2 (Discrete Control Devices)

    Tutorial 2
            Description
Automotive Cruise Control Examples
Example: one of the first patents on cruise control by R. Teetor
   "In-house" examples of cruise control functional block diagram

WEEK 3 (2009)
Lecture 3 (Finite State Machines by A/Prof. Lyndon While)

Tutorial 3 (Finite State Machines by A/Prof. Lyndon While)


WEEK 4 (2009)
Lecture 4 (Finite State Machines by A/Prof. Lyndon While)

Tutorial 4 (Finite State Machines by A/Prof. Lyndon While)


WEEK 5 (2009)
Lecture 5 (Finite State Machines by A/Prof. Lyndon While)

Tutorial 5 (Introduction to the Telelabs System and Sand Weighing Machine Assignment – due by September 12-still 2008)
Assignment Description
Telelabs Instructions for Students
Sand Machine Documentation Summary
All the Files For the Assignment

WEEK 6 (still 2008)
Lecture 6 (Continuous Drive Systems: Electric Motors)
        Lecture Recording (audio only due to Lectopia problems)
Lecture Recording (screen capture with audio missing from time to time due to Lectopia problems)
Tutorial 6
Computer Hard Drive Reverse Engineering

WEEK 7 (still 2008)
Lecture 7 (Hydraulic Drives. Simulation Part 1)

Tutorial 7 (Simulation Examples: 1) Hydraulic Ram. 2) RLC and Spring-Mass Systems Vibrations)

WEEK 9 (still 2008)
Lecture 8 (Simulation: Thermal Systems, ODE of Order Greater Than 1, Limitations of Euler's Method)

Tutorial 8 (Simulation: Electric Iron Exercise 1 - due by October 3)

WEEK 10 (still 2008)
Lecture 9 (Simulation: Runge-Kutta Method (ODEs solving), More Advanced Model of Electric Iron, Electric Iron Exercise 2 Announced – due by October 13th)

Tutorial 9 (Simulation Example: Electric Oven)

WEEK 11 (still 2008)
Lecture 10 (Automation of Mining Operations by Victor Schweikart of Rio Tinto Iron Ore): No pdf - go to Lectopia

Tutorial 10 (Electric Iron Exercise 2. Simulation Example: Electric motor driving a pump through a gear)


WEEK 12 (still 2008)
Lecture 11 (Project Presentation and Exam Assesment Hints. Introduction to Continuous -PID- Control)

Moments of Inertia: Brief Introduction/Summary

PID control of a tank level: Example (in Mathematica) by Housam Binous ( http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PIDControlOfATankLevel/

Tutorial 11 (Simulation Example: Mechanics. A) Electric motor driving a pump through a gear.
B) Pump driven through a clutch and flexible shaft.)


WEEK 13 (still 2008)
Lecture 12 (PID Control: Electric Motor PID control)
Lecture audio recording (In Microsoft *.wav format. You can use e.g. QuickTime player to listen to it.)

Tutorial 12 (Introduction to Electric Iron Exercise 3: PID Control of Electric Iron)

WEEK 14
Lecture 13 (Summary and Exam Hints)
Lecture audio recording (In Microsoft *.wav format. You can use e.g. QuickTime player to listen to it.)

Tutorial 13 (Summary and Exam Hints )

New example (impact)

BRIEF SUMMARY (SIMULATION AND FSM) WHEN PREPARING FOR THE EXAM (2008)

EXAMPLES TO STUDY WHEN PREPARING FOR THE EXAM (2008)

Example 1 (Hydraulic ram)

Example 2 (Oscillations: Electrical and mechanical systems)

Example 3 (Thermal systems: Electric oven)

Example 4 (Mechanical systems: Electric motor driving a pump through a gear)

Example 5 (Mechanical systems: Motor driving a pump through a clutch and flexible shaft)

Example 6 (Mechanical systems: Simple example on impacts)

ASSIGNMENTS (2009)

NOT AVAILABLE YET! Finite State Machine Assignment (with Prof. Lyndon While ) - Deadline August 21 st 2009 : 4%