Intelligent Control Systems with LabVIEW - With International Students

DESCRIPTION
Engineering students must become familiar with the use of control techniques and technologies of industrial process automation. LabVIEW is currently a standard tool in the industry for thedesign and implementation of industrial control, especially in the areas of control,
instrumentation and electronics. This course focuses on providing students with sufficient theoretical, practical, and technological knowledge to address the planning and proposal of industrial control solutions. The course also uses LabVIEW as a design and implementation tool deepening in the development of industrial control applications. These are topics usually related to most of the working environments for engineers in industry.

OBJECTIVES
- Learn the LabVIEW programming techniques
- Develop a real professional project in the LabVIEW programming environment.
- Analyze, design, and develop control applications in the LabVIEW programming
environment.

CONTENTS

PART 1: Introduction
Introduction to instrumentation and control systems. Presentation of the National Instruments
tools as a standar in industry.
Automotive industry applications examples. Introduction to LabVIEW Programming
Environment.

PART 2: LabVIEW Programming techniques
Topics:
1. LabVIEW Basics
2. Data structures in LabVIEW
3. Modular application development
4. Hardware for data acquisition
5. Common design patterns in LabVIEW
6. User Interface Control
7. Advance techniques for file management
8. Control using LabVIEW
9. Industrial communications using LabVIEW

PART 3: Development of Control System applications in the LabVIEW Environment.

METHODOLOGY
Activities inside the classroom:
* Classes for contextualizing the control architectures and the different measuring and control
technologies presented in the automotive control systems.
* Exposition classes in which the various technological elements presented in an industrial plant
are described, and their properties, advantages, limitations and practical operation are analyzed
and evaluated.
* Laboratory practices are developed in the National Instruments Laboratory, where LabVIEW
is used to analyze, design, and implement industrial control applications. All the control
strategies explained in exposition classes are implemented in a practical manner in the
laboratory.

Activities outside the classroom
* Personal study of the material compiled during the activities carried out in class and solution
of the different work proposed.
* Fulfillment of the different tasks proposed (exercises, problems, cases and questions) that will
be submitted by means of the learning platform (Moodle), assessed by the professor, and
returned back to the student.

ASSESSMENT
* Final Examination (40%)
* Evaluation of the laboratory activities (30%)
* Continuous Evaluation (30%)
o Activities (questions, exercises) done individually
o Reports on activities done by the group
o Evaluation of personal work done during the development of the practical work in the
laboratory

READINGS
- Automotive Control Systems. U Kiencke and L. Nielsen. Springer, 2005.
- Automated Continuous Process Control, Carlos A. Smith. Wiley, 2002.
All the information and material needed for the course is available on-line to all the registered
students. The student will be able to virtually and interactively follow all of the material,
activities, work and evaluations related with the subject. The previously mentioned material is
the following:
o Syllabus
o Main bibliography
o Slides classified by chapter
o Guide for laboratory sessions
o Additional documents and URLs that complement the basic material
o Additional bibliographic references