PDF1. Advanced Control Systems
Examples in this category illustrate innovative advanced control system designs that take advantage of NI graphical system design techniques.
Applications can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Industrial machine control
- Embedded control systems
- Mechatronic design
- Robotics
Technologies demonstrated can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Graphical system design software, including the LabVIEW FPGA and LabVIEW Real-Time modules
- NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware with embedded FPGA technology for custom I/O timing, triggering, and synchronization
- Embedded processing
- Real-time execution
- Basic proportional integral derivative (PID) to advanced nonlinear control
- Precision motion
- Multiaxis motion
- Machine vision
2. Advanced Research
Examples in this category include how research institutions and laboratories investigate and validate the viability of conceptual technologies and deploy systems using graphical system design techniques.
Applications can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Particle physics
- Fusion
- Astronomy and aerospace
- Scientific discovery
- Government and university laboratory experiments
Technologies demonstrated can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Graphical system design software
- Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware
- Multicore processing
- Embedded processing
- Real-time execution
- Data acquisition hardware and software
- Advanced measurements
3. Automated Test
Examples in this category exhibit innovative test system designs that use software-defined instrumentation and address challenges such as increasing efficiency, maximizing throughput, and/or ensuring production or verification quality.
Applications can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Military and avionics test
- Semiconductor validation test
- RF and wireless communications test
- Audio/video test
- Consumer electronics test
Technologies demonstrated can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Modular instrumentation
- Software-defined instrumentation
- Graphical system design software
- Open PC technologies
- Data acquisition hardware and software
- High-speed data streaming
- FPGA processing
- COTS test system software
- Real-time execution
4. Education
Examples in this category show how universities are using NI hardware and software to provide students with hands-on learning opportunities in the classroom.
Applications can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Circuit design
- Control design and simulation
- Measurements and instrumentation
- Signal and image processing
- Embedded systems
- RF and communications
- Machine control and mechatronics
5. Energy
Examples in this category highlight how engineers, scientists, and researchers are addressing many of today’s most pressing energy issues, from the development of more reliable and efficient renewable energy sources to enhanced distribution monitoring systems.
Applications can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Solar application design, development, and/or test
- Wind application design, development, and/or test
- Energy storage
- Smart grid technologies
- Power quality monitoring
6. Life Sciences
Examples in this category demonstrate how engineers, scientists, chemists, and biologists design, prototype, and deploy PC-based or portable technologies for medical devices and life science research.
Application design challenges can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Rapid prototyping
- Increasing device quality
- Reducing patient risk
- Rapid product deployment
- Life sciences research
Technologies demonstrated can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Graphical system design software
- FPGA processing
- Embedded processing and control
- Real-time execution
- Multicore processing
- Human machine interfaces (HMIs)
- Basic PID control to advanced nonlinear control
- Data acquisition hardware and software
7. RF and Communications
Examples in this category highlight how engineers are testing the RF/wireless capabilities of their products or developing next-generation algorithms for use in deployed wireless systems using a software-defined platform.
Applications can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- RF/microwave and wireless test
- RF academic research
- Spectrum monitoring
- Software-defined radio
- Wireless connectivity and cellular communication
- Real-time signal processing
- Semiconductor characterization and validation
Technologies demonstrated can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Graphical system design software
- FPGA-based instrumentation
- Wireless connectivity and cellular standards
- RF/microwave design software
- Hardware-in-the-loop methodologies
- Modular instrumentation
- High-speed record and playback
8. Structural and Physical Test and Monitoring
Examples in this category highlight how engineers are testing the mechanical performance and safety of large, complex structures such as airplanes, trains, military vehicles, industrial machinery, wind turbines, and civil structures.
Applications can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Static strength testing
- Fatigue/durability testing
- Aerodynamic testing (wind tunnels)
- Ground vibration testing
- Acoustics/aeroacoustics
- Noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH)
- Seismic testing
- Condition monitoring
9. Transportation
Examples in this category highlight how engineers use NI hardware and software in a variety of design, test, and control applications for automobiles, trains, ships, planes, boats, and heavy equipment.
Applications can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Rapid control prototyping
- End-of-line test
- Test cell measurement and control
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
- In-vehicle test and data logging
- Autonomous vehicle design and development
