Course details

Personal Computers in Measurement

PMT Acad. year 2006/2007 Winter semester 6 credits

Current academic year

Basic application PC in measurement. Virtual instrumentation. Separation SW. SW for postprocessing, planning, construction and simulation. Summary of world firm SW producers. Statistics and presentation sw. LabWindows, VEE and LabVIEW systems. Hardware, measurement cards for PC.

Guarantor

Čejka Miloslav, Ing., CSc.

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 39 hrs laboratories

Department

Department of Control and Instrumentation (UAMT)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Competence for work with measurement systems and ability to participate in their design.

Learning objectives

To be familiar with application of personal computers in measurement. To get knowledge about commercial software for planning and realization of experiments, selecting SW and HW. Training on development version SW, work with real instruments.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

PC usage and basic knowledge about electrical engineering.

Study literature

  • Čejka, M.: Stručný obsah přednášek předmětu PMT, soubory na disku.
  • Čejka, M.: LabWINDOWS, soubory na disku.
  • Čejka, M.: LabVIEW, soubory na disku.
  • Server: http://www.ni.com, http://www.agilent.com

Fundamental literature

  • Kocourek: Elektronické měřicí systémy, ČVUT Praha.
  • Firemní literatura Hewlett-Packard.
  • Firemní literatura National Instruments.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Introduction, basic application for on-line, off-line.
  2. SW separation, examples.
  3. SW for measurement instrument construct.
  4. Statistical and visualization sw. HiQ (NI).
  5. LabWindows: Structure, language, libraries. Formatting and I/O library.
  6. LabWindows: Advanced Analysis library, user interface.
  7. Basic principles for communication PC with measurement instruments. RS..., GPIB, VXI.
  8. Plugg-in PC card for measurement.
  9. LabWindows: Instrument library creation.
  10. LabWindows: Data Acqusition, GPIB and RS232 libraries, toolsets.
  11. LabVIEW: Basic development environment, programs, libraries.
  12. LabVIEW: Tool sets, basic examples of programming technic.
  13. Distributed measurement systems, computer network.

Syllabus of laboratory exercises

  • Self work: unlinear characteritic meter with GPIB.
  • Self work: callibration system with GPIB.
  • Self work: scope and spectral analyzer on PC card PC-LPM-16.
  • Self work: Frequency characteristic meter with GPIB.

Progress assessment

Active participation on practice, written test, self work presentation on PC.

Controlled instruction

Active participation on practice, written test, self work presentation on PC.

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