Mechatronics Web Cast Series: New Technologies Enable Virtual Machine Prototyping
Print
Table of Contents
| If you have a 3D CAD model, you could be simulating the mechanical and electrical performance of your machine in minutes. By integrating LabVIEW, SolidWorks, and COSMOSMotion design tools, the worlds of mechanical, electrical, and embedded system design are coming together. Explore this webcast series to learn new mechatronics simulation techniques to lower the cost and risk of designing machines with electronic control systems. In the past, simulating the performance of a machine containing both mechanical and electrical components was a difficult and time consuming process that required highly specialized expertise. Today, new state of the art mechatronics design tools from National Instruments and SolidWorks are bringing the electrical and mechanical worlds together to make simulation easier. |
|
.JPG)
.GIF)
| With this webcast series, learn how electromechanical simulation can bring your machine to life before you've ordered a single part: visualize motion, size motors, evaluate performance, design control logic, optimize throughput, and more. Then reuse the same software you created for simulating the machine when you transition the design from prototyping to high volume deployment. To learn more about National Instruments and mechatronics, please visit our mechatronics page or download the NI mechatronics Resource Kit. |
Available Now!
-
Part I: Mechatronics Basics: Virtual Machine Prototyping Overview and Business Benefits
Part I summarizes business benefits and overviews five key technology areas for virtual machine prototyping.
- Part II: Visualization - Introduction to CosmosMotion and LabVIEW for Mechanical Simulation
Part II provides a live demonstration that shows you how to get started with animating your SolidWorks model using COSMOSMotion and LabVIEW. See the machine operating before building a physical prototype. Use virtual prototyping to improve communication within the design team. Use visualization as a sales tool for competitive advantage.
- Part II.b: LabVIEW - SolidWorks Mechatronics Toolkit Alpha Version 01 Tutorial
Part II.b will walk you through the NI LabVIEW-SolidWorks Mechatronics Toolkit Alpha Version 01. We walk through the basic features of the toolkit and show the demonstration programs that are included with the toolkit for motion trajectory design, visualization, collision detection, throughput time studies, and motor, drive and transmission sizing.
Coming Soon!
-
Part III: Digital Control Logic Design: Validating Digital True/False and Sequential Function Chart Logic
Design, prototype and test the digital true/false logic and sequential function state-chart designs. Simulate sensors/actuators. Use 3D CAD visualization to verify electro-mechanical interactions. Fix control software bugs before building the machine. Connect your PLC to a simulation model running in LabVIEW to validate your control logic.
-
Part IV: Motion Control System Design: Multi-Axis Coordinated Trajectory Generation, Collision Detection, and Motor Sizing
Automate the design of multi-axis coordinated motion trajectories. Validate timing and sequencing logic. Estimate performance/throughput. Reduce deadtime while designing for sufficient margins of error. Detect collisions. Use visualization to verify design. Size the motor and drive using electrical simulation. Determine required motor torque based on required motion trajectories, payload weight, and friction. Evaluate tradeoffs between performance and motor size. Automate the motor and drive selection process. Validate motor/drive selection with electrical and thermal simulation.
-
Part V: PID Control Loop Tuning: Optimize, Tune and Improve PID Control Systems Using Simulation
Optimize and tune the control system using simulation. Locate the performance bottlenecks-- focus focus optimization work on the bottlenecks. Optimize the design, evaluate electromechanical tradeoffs.
-
Part VI: Automated Control Design. Using System Identification Techniques to Detect Mechanical Resonances and Design Optimized Control Algorithms
Apply a stimulus force signal to your simulated mechanical system and measure the position response. Use frequency response function (FRF) analysis techniques to simplify PID tuning and detect problems such as mechanical resonances. Understand how fast your PID control loop needs to run for stable, high performance control of the system. Design control algorithms optimized for the mechanical dynamics of the system. Automate the control design process to improve performance without requiring extensive specialty expertise. Augment PID with low pass and notch filters to eliminate mechanical problems such as resonances that impact control loop performance.
Download a Pre-Release Version of the Mechatronics Toolkit
The NI LabVIEW-SolidWorks Mechatronics Toolkit is designed to help you quickly develop complex multi-axis motion profiles for your machine and validate them using simulation. The toolkit enables you to design motion profiles, detect collisions, simulate the mechanical dynamics of your machine including mass and friction effects, estimate machine cycle time performance, validate component selections for motors, drives and mechanical transmissions, and evaluate engineering tradeoffs between the mechanical, electrical, control and embedded system aspects of the design.
Download the NI LabVIEW-SolidWorks Mechatronics Toolkit (Pre-Release Version)
Print
Reader Comments | Submit a comment »
Legal
This tutorial (this "tutorial") was developed by National Instruments ("NI"). Although technical support of this tutorial may be made available by National Instruments, the content in this tutorial may not be completely tested and verified, and NI does not guarantee its quality in any way or that NI will continue to support this content with each new revision of related products and drivers. THIS TUTORIAL IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND SUBJECT TO CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS AS MORE SPECIFICALLY SET FORTH IN NI.COM'S TERMS OF USE (http://ni.com/legal/termsofuse/unitedstates/us/).