Overview

This unit aims to provide students with an understanding of software based tools for the development of virtual instruments for use in real world data acquisition and measurement systems. The knowledge gained will be used to complete an instrumentation project.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Generate data acquisition applications that utilise GUIs and Virtual Instruments. (K1, K2, K3, S1)
  • Assess and apply suitable programming structures and data types to display and log data. (A4, K2, K3, S1)
  • Select and apply suitable interfacing techniques in order to capture data from real devices. (K1, K2, K3, S1)
  • Justify intelligent solutions to data acquisition problems. (A2, A4, K5, S1, S3)
  • Design and Construct a digital solution to a data acquisition problem and demonstrate its effectiveness. (A5, A6, A7, K2, K3, S1, S3)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Lecture		1.50 12 weeks 18
On-campus
Lab		3.00 11 weeks 33
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		8.00 12 weeks 96
TOTAL147

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual/Group 100% 1,2,3,4,5 

Content

  • Introduction to LabVIEW and Virtual Instruments
  • Programming structures
  • Modularity
  • Acquiring Measurements with Hardware
  • Sequential and State machine Programming
  • Files, Variables, I/O, UI
  • Improving an existing Virtual Instrument
  • Creating and Distributing an application

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.