LabVIEW extended to control design and simulation
23 February 2005
Test & Measurement
National Instruments has extended the LabVIEW graphical development environment to the design, implementation and test of control systems with a suite of tools that includes the new NI LabVIEW System Identification Toolkit 2.0 and NI LabVIEW Control Design Toolkit 2.0. These products feature interactive assistants that give control design and simulation engineers a drag-and-drop, configuration-based environment for plant modelling and control system design.
With the interactive assistants, engineers can use real-world stimulus and response to identify dynamic system models and analyse and synthesise control systems. LabVIEW Control Design Toolkit features graphical tools such as root-locus and Bode plots to help engineers design dynamic control systems for applications such as adaptive cruise control systems to high-precision machines. Traditionally, these engineers used text-based environments without interactive user interfaces.
The suite of LabVIEW control design and simulation tools also include the NI LabVIEW Simulation Module and NI LabVIEW State Diagram Toolkit. For performing applications such as rapid control prototyping or embedded implementation, engineers can use the tools with the new NI CompactRIO embedded system. For hardware-in-the-loop testing applications that require high-speed computation capability, engineers can use realtime PXI targets.
For more information contact NI South Africa, 0800 203 199, [email protected]
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