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Control System Design and Analysis
Students complete activities that progress from basics in modeling and control to more complex control strategies like hybrid and digital control. Designed for NI ELVIS III and LabVIEW.
Control System Design and Analysis - Simulink®
Students complete activities that progress from the basics in modeling and control to more complex control strategies like hybrid and digital control. Designed for NI ELVIS III and Simulink®.
Power Electronics
Students complete hands-on labs that cover the fundamentals of DC-DC linear regulators, DC-DC buck regulators, DC-AC inverters, and AC-DC rectifiers. Designed for NI ELVIS III.
Energy Systems Analysis
Students complete hands-on activities to investigate the essential functionality and behavior of energy conversion systems from AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC, and AC-AC. Designed for NI ELVIS III.
Mechatronic Systems Analysis
Students interact with a complete mechatronic system from low-level integration, through sub-systems and processes, to the higher-level automation algorithms. Designed for NI ELVIS III.
Fundamentals of Mechatronic Actuators
Students complete hands-on activities to control and compare common motors in order to make wise system design decisions. Designed for NI ELVIS III
Measurements and Instrumentation
Through theory and experimentation, students will be introduced through the four main components of taking a measurement: converting physical phenomena to a measurable signal, conditioning the...
Analog and Microelectronics
This course covers fundamental components of Analog Electronics. Through theory and experimentation, students will be introduced to the building blocks of analog electronic design and guided through...
RIO Developer Essentials Guide for Academia
This Guide introduces students to a widely adopted NI RIO technology. Students will write LabVIEW code to communicate between PC hosts, real-time, and FPGA targets.
Communications Principles
Students study a broad range of introductory digital and analog telecommunications topics through a series of hands-on laboratory experiments. Designed for NI ELVIS III.
Inverted Pendulum Control
In this lab students will learn about inverted pendulum control through hands-on application of the concepts. Designed for use with NI ELVIS III and LabVIEW.
Introduction to DSSS (Spread Spectrum)
In this lab, students will recover a variety of messages from an amplitude modulated carrier signal and develop an understanding of the demodulation process. Designed for NI ELVIS III.
Modeling Equations
In the lab students will investigate the addition of two signals and compare the theoretical calculation with measured results. Designed for NI ELVIS III.
myDAQ Projects for Engineering Students
myDAQ Projects for Engineering Students teaches introductory engineering concepts through engaging DAQExpress workbooks exploring data acquisition, transducer interfacing, and programming...
Position-Controlled Actuators
In this lab students will learn about open-loop and closed-loop actuator position control in a hands-on application. Designed for use with NI ELVIS III.
Controls Labs for the Quanser QUBE Servomotor and Pendulum
This set of ABET-aligned labs introduces students to control systems for a servomotor and pendulum. Student design simple to complex models and control systems, and ultimately design and stabilize a...
DC Motor Position Control
In this lab, students will learn about quantitative PD control design through a hands-on lab structured around a DC motor. Designed for NI ELVIS III and LabVIEW.
NI myRIO Project Essentials Guide
The myRIO Project Essentials Guide serves as the guide to interfacing NI myRIO to the wide variety of sensors, actuators, and displays that students will need for projects.
NI myRIO Vision Essentials Guide
This manual serves as a guide to the essential techniques necessary for students to add vision to their NI myRIO project. Students complete design projects that interact with the visual world to...
Strongman Game
Build a strongman game by sensing force with a piezoelectric film strip.
Advanced Project Ideas
Start doing projects on your own with your myDAQ. Get started with a few ideas here.
Ambient Light Sensor
In this project, students learn the principles of operation and applications of a sonic range finder, as well as the principles of the SPI communication protocol. Students use myRIO and LabVIEW to...
Electret Microphone
This project introduces the electret microphone to record audio signals and to monitor acoustic level.
Seven-Segment LED Display
This project teaches students to describe the array of LEDs wired with a common-anode connection, design the interface circuit, and recognize that blue LEDs may be connected without current-limiting...
LED Matrix
In this project, students learn the principles of operation of an LED matrix, and techniques for displaying patterns and animations. Students will complete the interface circuit, and use myRIO and...
Bluetooth Module
This project introduces students to data communication over Bluetooth radio, the interface theory and operation of a Bluetooth module, and UART communication. Students use myRIO and LabVIEW to send...
GPS Receiver
This project introduces students to GPS concepts like trilateration, data parsing, and the operation, interface, and features of a GPS receiver. Students use myRIO and LabVIEWto acquire, process,...
USB Flash Drive
This project introduces students to logging data on myRIO. Students use LabVIEW to monitor the myRIO onboard accelerometer, and saves the data as a spreadsheet onto a USB flash drive.
Problems and Explorations in Microelectronics with NI myDAQ and Multisim
For faculty wishing to incorporate portable instrumentation into their analog electronics courses, this text provides forty end-of-chapter-style problems covering basic concepts in diodes,...
Stability Analysis
This lab covers the basics of stability analysis, including bounded-input bounded-output (BIBO) stability, Nyquist stability analysis, and the Routh Hurwitz coefficient test. Designed for NI ELVIS...
Labs for Integrator Electronics Engineering Add-On Board
The Integrator Electronics Engineering hands-on labs teach fundamental electrical engineering concepts including resistance, inductance, and capacitance. Designed for NI ELVIS II/II+.
Reading Encoders
Students will decode quadrature encoder data, implement a LabVIEW VI to decode quadrature encoder data, and add direction sense and calibration functionality. Designed for NI ELVIS II/II+.
NI ELVIS Computer-Based Instrumentation
This instructional guidebook provides an introduction to the NI ELVIS II workstation and to LabVIEW’s graphical programming environment. Download includes LabVIEW VI's. Designed for NI ELVIS II/II+.
Power Systems
For both wind power generation and DC power supply applications, students complete activities to analyze the interactions of electrical components and efficiencies of the systems. Designed for NI...
Converting Between AC and DC Power
Students will complete lab activities to produce DC power from AC power using a rectifier, and to produce AC power from DC power using an inverter. Designed for NI ELVIS III.