NI LabVIEW software can be integrated with a variety of data acquisition and real-time hardware platforms in addition to control plants from educational collaborators such as Quanser, Feedback, and Educational Control Products (ECP). The packaged solutions below include all of the necessary hardware and software components for teaching a controls or mechatronics course at an introductory, intermediate, or advanced level. National Instruments can help you enhance your controls or mechatronics course by providing easy-to-use programming tools and access to real-world I/O.
Quanser Engineering Trainers for the NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS), also known as QNET, is a series of six experiments that are designed exclusively for the NI ELVIS platform. Extending the functionality of NI ELVIS and LabVIEW through six training boards, the QNET experiments are effective tools for teaching controls fundamentals in various engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, mechatronics, aerospace, and biomedical. Comprehensive curriculum is provided with all experiments.
NI ELVIS is a modular instrumentation suite integrated with LabVIEW. This multidisciplinary educational platform is ideal for teaching introductory engineering concepts including control design and simulation.
LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used to deliver project-based learning to the classroom, enhance research applications, and foster the next generation of innovators. The intuitive nature of graphical system design helps students design, simulate, and implement a variety of controllers. The LabVIEW Academic Standard Suite includes the LabVIEW Professional Development System and a comprehensive set of LabVIEW modules and toolkits.
Quanser rotary experiments are ideal for teaching control concepts hands-on. Students can design and implement any control system using the NI LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module to command the angular position of a DC servo. Seven completely different control challenges can be configured using the same base unit and several add-on modules. These captivating experiments come complete with pedagogical curriculum.
The Quanser Engineering Trainer (QET) DC Motor Control is the first in the QET Series. The QET DC Motor Control trainer provides an ideal way to demonstrate the fundamentals of motor control, tuning, and haptics. This affordable stand-alone trainer is exceptionally versatile and can be controlled with NI real-time hardware such as CompactRIO.
Introduce students to theory and implementation of control systems using industrial real-time hardware. CompactRIO is a low-cost, reconfigurable control and acquisition system that combines a real-time processor and an FPGA with small size. With CompactRIO, you can implement multi-loop analog proportional integral derivative (PID) control systems at loop rates exceeding 100 kS/s.
LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used to deliver project-based learning to the classroom, enhance research applications, and foster the next generation of innovators. The intuitive nature of graphical system design helps students design, simulate, and implement a variety of controllers. The LabVIEW Academic Standard Suite includes the LabVIEW Professional Development System and a comprehensive set of LabVIEW modules and toolkits.
Educational Control Products (ECP) provides both turnkey and “plant-only” solutions for educators in the field of controls, dynamics, and vibrations. With ECP models, students can see the open loop models and frequencies and time constants as well as demonstrate the effectiveness of closed-loop control. Each model transforms into a variety of dynamic forms, offering a broad range of curriculum options.
Introduce students to theory and implementation of control systems using industrial real-time hardware. NI Plug-In RIO devices offer both value and performance by integrating field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology with analog and digital I/O into a single device offered on standard PC form factors. NI Plug-In RIO devices can perform deterministic closed-loop control at rates exceeding 1 MHz.
LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used to deliver project-based learning to the classroom, enhance research applications, and foster the next generation of innovators. The intuitive nature of graphical system design helps students design, simulate, and implement a variety of controllers. The LabVIEW Academic Standard Suite includes the LabVIEW Professional Development System and a comprehensive set of LabVIEW modules and toolkits.
The Feedback Instruments Coupled Tanks System is a model of an industrial process plant fragment, which is fully compatible with NI LabVIEW software. Very often, tanks are coupled through pipes and the reactant level and flow has to be controlled. The experiment is designed so that students may develop their own control algorithms or use the models supplied with the courseware.
The NI PCI-6251 data acquisition card is included with the purchase of the Feedback Coupled Tanks System and the Levitating Magnet. The PCI-6251 is a high-speed multifunction M Series data acquisition (DAQ) board optimized for superior accuracy at fast sampling rates. (This card is included with your purchase of the Feedback Instruments Coupled Tanks System.)
LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used to deliver project-based learning to the classroom, enhance research applications, and foster the next generation of innovators. The intuitive nature of graphical system design helps students design, simulate, and implement a variety of controllers. The LabVIEW Academic Standard Suite includes the LabVIEW Professional Development System and a comprehensive set of LabVIEW modules and toolkits.
Two-Wheeled Balancing Transport Platform
A senior design team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) set out to develop an interdisciplinary mechatronic system by designing and prototyping a two-wheeled robotic locomotion platform inspired by the Segway Human Transporter.
