Virtual Instrumentation

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

Hawthorn

03-March-2025
01-June-2025

16-March-2025

31-March-2025

24-April-2025

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)
Live Online Lecture	1.00	12 weeks	12
On-campus Lab	3.00	11 weeks	33
Unspecified Activities Independent Learning	8.75	12 weeks	105
TOTAL			150

Assessment

Type	Task	Weighting	ULO's
Portfolio	Individual/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.