Modeling, Control, and HIL Tools

VI Package Manager is a package management tool that organizes and maintains VI Packages within your LabVIEW environment. VIPM allows you to quickly access online code repositories and get them into your LabVIEW development environment in the shortest amount of time possible.

The ATA Aerospace Toolkit allows the user to rapidly build complex simulations of spacecraft flight. With over 140 sophisticated VIs you can quickly build high-fidelity models for analysis, design or hardware-in-the-loop testing. You can extend the LabVIEW platform from test and measurement into a tool for simulation.

With the NI LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit, you can link your NI LabVIEW and Simulink software. You can create user interfaces for Simulink models and implement the models on real-time hardware platforms with real-world I/O. The toolkit provides a plug-in to The MathWorks, Inc. Real-Time Workshop® to import your models created in the Simulink environment into LabVIEW to integrate them with a wide variety of I/O. With these features, you can easily transition from software algorithm verification to real-world prototyping using the same user interface.

enDYNA basic provides real-time simulation of your internal combustion engine. Typical areas for the use of enDYNA are development and test of engine control algorithms, on-board diagnosis (OBD), controller and component tests in HIL test benches as well as integration tests in laboratory cars.

veDYNA is the comprehensive software for the efficient simulation of vehicle dynamics. The applications of veDYNA range from the conceptual vehicle development at the PC over component tests in virtual or physical test rigs up to function development and test of vehicle dynamics controllers in software- and hardware-in-the-loop environments.

The 3D animation tool DYNAanimation visualizes simulation results of any moving mechanical system in real-time. Create eye-catching presentations of your results by designing individual and realistic simulation environments - with VRML-objects and various graphical displays such as tachometers, bar graphs and dynamic plots.

The NI LabVIEW Simulation Module integrates dynamic system simulation into the LabVIEW environment. You can model linear, nonlinear, discrete, and continuous plant or control systems in block diagram form within the new simulation node.

Engineers worldwide in aerospace, defense, automotive, and academia rely on the industry-proven NI MATRIXx product family for model-based design, simulation, and embedded code generation. With the NI MATRIXx software suite, you gain a complete solution from initial design to final production for your dynamic embedded control system.

The NI LabVIEW Statechart Module provides a new programming model that you can use to develop statechart diagrams, define behaviors with LabVIEW dataflow programming, and deploy the statecharts to many computing targets including desktop PCs, real-time controllers, and FPGAs.

CyboSoft's Model-Free Adaptive (MFA) control technology is the basis of the only "No Model" advanced controllers that can control simple or complex systems. Six MFA controllers are available as VIs in the LabVIEW real-time software environment. No precise process knowledge is required to launch an MFA controller, and no controller tuning is required once installed. You can select the "right" MFA to provide high-speed adaptive control of problematic loops including those with nonlinear characteristics, large delay times, and large disturbances.

ICP for LabVIEW generates dynamic models and controllers (structures and parameters) from measured data for direct use. Different operating areas are taken into account as well as desired closed control loop dynamics requirements and even user-defined transitioning profiles between setpoints. Even strong noisy measurements are handled. Expert knowledge about the underlying theories is not required.

IDCON Classic provides powerful and proven methods for automatic generation of continuous-time, dynamic models from measured data (often known as: system identification). Application areas include Hydraulic Systems, Electrical Systems, Mechanical Systems, Combustion and Diesel Engines, etc. IDCON Classic is especially valuable in experimental, simulation and prototyping environments where models are needed as transfers functions or differential equations. The model generation is based on measurements which may consist of arbitrarily varying time-domain input signals or frequency response data.

ecCST is a flexible control algorithm providing bumpless switching between controller parameter sets. Algorithm enables bumpless switching between parameter sets for different operating areas and different process variables (system outputs) and actuators. You may apply them directly in simulation and prototyping environments including PXI, CompactRIO and FieldPoint systems as well as in ECUs. The controller parameters may be gained directly and automatically with ICP for LabVIEW.

ACD provides powerful and proven methods for the automatic design of control systems. ACD automatically calculates the parameters for the well known compensator types: P, PI, PD, and PID, Extended PID tuning, and generalized controller of user defined order (including state controller with observer). T he ACD User Interface within LabVIEW provides guidance at every step in the process.

This add-on toolkit for LabVIEW allows you to edit Sequential Function Charts (SFC also known as GRAFCET) in your LabVIEW diagram. These SFC can be then used as the execution engine of your control/command application.

The National Instruments LabVIEW PID Control Toolkit adds sophisticated control algorithms to your instrumentation software development system by combining the PID and fuzzy logic control functionswith the math and logic functions in NI LabVIEW.

AvDAS is a distributed data acquisition, control and simulation system developed to address the requirements of modern hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), rapid-prototyping and other advanced applications where deterministic real time performance is needed while working with high channel counts, fast data throughput and uncompromised data integrity.

Ecu Automated Simulation Environment, is a fully featured system for complete ECU HIL testing. EASE provides a comprehensive set of software tools and seamless integration with NI PXI hardware platform; setting a new standard for open, adaptable, scalable, expandable, and cost effective ECU simulation and testing.

The PDAS is specifically designed for portable data acquisition and analysis. The PDAS is available as a standalone unit with customizable channels, and connectivity options.