Interfacing with Motors

This is lab 1 of 4 in the course

by Quanser Inc.

In this lab, students will complete activities to control the speed of a DC motor using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), as well as learn how to determine the position of the motor using a quadrature encoder.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After completing this lab, students will be able to:

Describe the function and purpose of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM).
Develop a PWM pulse generator.
Use a PWM signal to regulate the dimness of an LED.
Explore PWM generation for regulating motor speed.
Decode encoder data in Quadrature mode.
Implement an encoder decoder in quadrature mode to determine counts and direction.
Understand the importance of running encoder decoding and PWM pulse generation on a FPGA as opposed to a processor.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Differential Equations or equivalent
Linear Algebra or equivalent
Dynamic Systems or equivalent
Introduction to Programming or equivalent
Basic experience with LabVIEW

Requirements

NI ELVIS III

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DETAILED REQUIREMENTS

Required Software

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NI ELVIS III Software Bundle (2018 or later)
- LabVIEW (Requires license)
- LabVIEW Real-Time Module (Requires license)
- NI ELVIS III Toolkit
- LabVIEW Control Design & Simulation (Requires License)
- Vision Acquisition Software (Requires License)
- Vision Development Module (Requires License)

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