Controls/Lab/Lab3

• Create a National Instruments Account and install LabVIEW student suite using the MEMS guide that was emailed.
• Go through Cyber exploration laboratory 1.10 in the zyBook. Use the vi to answer the following questions:
  • What are the long-term behaviors of the step and ramp responses of the system with a Type 0 controller? That is, do they eventually follow the input perfectly, follow with some constant amount of error, or fail to follow and the error grows over time.
  • What about behaviors of the responses with a Type 1 controller? Type 2?
  • For the Type 0 controller only - how does changing the gain change the transient characteristics (i.e. how long it takes to get to steady-state?) How does changing the gain change the steady-state characteristics (i.e. the steady-state error)
• Go through Hardware Interface Laboratory 2.15 Experiments 2.15.1 and 2.15.2
  • You will be turning in your virtual instruments for these experiments; call them
    • c_like.vi
    • resist_colors.vi
    • looper.vi
    • square_wave.vi
• Install the Virtual Experiments (Note: this has to be on a Windows machine so Mac users will need a VM or Bootcamp)
  • Follow the Nise Virtual Experiments Installation Guide in the Lab 3 Files folder in the Resources section of the Sakai page
    • Two of the three downloads you need are also there; you will need to get the first from LabVIEW as it is too big for Sakai
      • Step 1: LabVIEW Runtime 2014 from LabVIEW (follow installation instructions)
      • Step 2: Quanser RCP is in QRCP2-14_runtime_win64.zip
      • Step 3: Virtual Experiments is in Virtual Labs Students.zip
  • Look at the student information files in the first two experiments and run the executables. For this lab, this is just for demonstration purposes - there is no write-up on the Virtual Experiments