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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
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 4th)
Assignment Description
Telelabs Instructions for Students
Sand Machine Documentation Summary
All the Files For the Assignment
Other useful links
Link to download of the Telelabs LOL client
Link to download of the LabView8.6 Runtime Engine (free but requires registration)
(You need the Runtime Engine to use Telelabs if you do
not have LabView8.6 installed)
WEEK 6 (2009)
Lecture 6 (Continuous Drive Systems: Electric Motors)
Tutorial 6
Computer Hard Drive Reverse Engineering
WEEK 7 (2009)
Lecture 7 (Torque a&Force Sensors. Hydraulic Actuation and Hydraulic Systems. Simulation Part 1)
Strain gages arranged in Wheatstone bridge: principles
Tutorial 7 (Simulation Examples: 1) Hydraulic Ram. 2) RLC and Spring-Mass Systems Vibrations)
WEEK 9 (2009)
Lecture 8 (Simulation: Thermal Systems. Electric Iron Example: Simple (a single component) and more advanced (multi-component) model.
Tutorial 8 (Simulation: Electric Oven Example. Mandatory reading: discussion (topics to consider for the exam). Simple Model of Electric Iron - assignment due by October 2nd.
Individual Study Simulation Module ("voluntray bonus exercise): more advanced model of electric iron).
WEEK 10 (2009): Prof. James Trevelayn
Lecture 9 Simulation:
More stable and robust methods for solving ODESs – Runge-Kutta
method. Basic laws governing mechanical, electrical and thermal
systems: Questions and Answers)
Tutorial 9 (Simulation: Oscillations — RLC and Spring-Mass Systems analogy)
WEEK 11 (2009 Lecture: Victor Schweikart of Rio Tinto. Tutorials: Lynn Kirkham of UWA Mech. Eng. and FSAE)
Lecture 10 (Automation of Mining Operations by Victor Schweikart of Rio Tinto Iron Ore): No pdf - go to Lectopia
Tutorial 10 (More about load cells,
accelerometers and Wheatsone bridge. Simulation examples. Lynn
Kirkham)
Strain gages arranged in Wheatstone bridge: principles
Wheatstone bridge linked to beam mechanics: More about principles of load cells and accelerometers
Example: Accelerometers in car crash safety
Accelerometers and cantilever beam: simulation example
WEEK 12 (2009)
Lecture 11 Introduction to Continuous -PID- Control(and Project Presentation/Exam Assessment Hints)
PID
control of a tank level: Example (in Mathematica) by Housam Binous
( http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PIDControlOfATankLevel/
Tutorial 11 (Introduction to Electric Iron Exercise 2: PID Control of Electric Iron)
WEEK 13 (2009)
Lecture 12 (PID Control: Electric Motor PID control)
Tutorial 12 (Simulation Example: Mechanics. A) Pump driven by an electric motor through a clutch and flexible shaft
B) Electric motor driving pump through a gear
WEEK 14
Lecture 13 (Summary and Exam Hints)
Tutorial 13 (Summary and Exam Hints)
BRIEF SUMMARY (SIMULATION AND FSM) WHEN PREPARING FOR THE EXAM (2009)
EXAMPLES AND NOTES TO STUDY WHEN PREPARING FOR THE EXAM (2009)
Example 1 (Hydraulic ram)
Example 2 (Oscillations: Electrical and mechanical systems (RLC circuit and mass-spring-damper system)
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: Ideally plastic impact)
Example 7 (Mechanical systems/electrical systems: Load cells, accelerometers linked to another simple example on impacts)
Example 8 (Mechanical systems/electrical systems: Accelerometer linked to perfectly inelastic impact)
Read and learn (i.e. understand) for the exam: Quick Recall of
Laws Governing the
Behaviour of Mechanical, Electrical and Thermal
Systems
Read and learn (i.e. understand) for the exam: Introduction to Modelling and Simulation
ASSIGNMENTS (2009)
DONE! Finite State Machine Assignment (with A/Prof. Lyndon While) - Deadline August 21st 2009: 6%
DONE! Sand Weighing Machine Assignment (telelabs) - Deadline September 4th 2009: 6%
DONE! Electric
Iron Exercise 1 (telelabs) - Deadline October 2nd 2009 : 6%
DONE (Bonus)! Individual Study Simulation Module (Voluntary!) - Deadline October 8th: Bonus of 3.5%
DONE! Electric
Iron PID control (telelabs) - Deadline October 23rd 2009: 6%
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