Course detail

Personal Computers in Measurement

FIT-IPMTAcad. year: 2009/2010

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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Miloslav Čejka, CSc.

Department

Department of Control and Instrumentation (UAMT)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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

Prerequisites

PC usage and basic knowledge about electrical engineering.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

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

Course curriculum

  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.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

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

Recommended reading

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

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Miloslav Čejka, CSc.

Syllabus

  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.

Laboratory exercise

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Miloslav Čejka, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 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.