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MATLAB Data Acquisition

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Contents
• Introduction
• MATLAB
• MATLAB Environment
• Data Acquisition Toolbox
• USB-6008 DAQ Device
• NI DAQmx driver
• Simulink
• Data Acquisition
• Introduction
• MAX – Measurement and Automation Explorer
• DAQ in MATLAB
• DAQ Application
• DAQ in Simulink



Introduction

• Matlab is a tool for technical computing, computation and visualization
in an environment Eg-
• Math and computation
• Algorithm development
• Data acquisition
• Modeling, simulation, and prototyping
• Data analysis, exploration, and visualization
• Scientific and engineering graphics
• Application development, including graphical user interface building



MATLAB Environment



MATLAB Environment
• MATLAB has following windows
• Command Window
• Command History
• Workspace
• Current Directory
• The Command Window is the
Main Window.
• Command Window is use to
enter variables and to run
functions and m-files scripts.



Data Acquisition Toolbox
• Data Acquisition toolbox provides functions for connecting MATLAB to
Data Acquisition Hardware
• Data Acquisition toolbox provides a complete set of tools for analog i/p,
analog o/p and digital I/o from variety of PC compatible data Acquisition
hardware
• The toolbox configure data acquisition hardware and read data into
• MATLAB and Simulink for immediate analysis and send out data
• Data Acquisition toolbox is use to write and read data from USB-6008
DAQ device from National Instruments



USB – 6008 DAQ Device
NI USB – 6008 is a simple and low-cost multifunction I/o device from NI
The device has following specifications
• 8 Analog i/p’s (12 bits,10kS/s)
• Compatible with Lab View, Lab windows and Measurement Studio for
visual studio.NET
• NI DAQmx Driver Software

NI DAQmx Driver
• NI provides a native .NET API for NI – DAQmx
• This is available as a part of the NI - DAQmx
driver and does not require a measurement
Studio



Simulink
• Simulink is developed by the MathWorks is a commercial tool for modeling,
Simulating and analyzing dynamic systems
• Its primary interface is a graphical block diagramming tool and a customizable
set of block libraries
• It offers tight integration with the rest of the MATLAB environment and can
either drive MATLAB or be scripted from it
• Simulink is widely used in control theory and digital signal



Data Acquisition
Introduction
• The purpose of Data Acquisition is to measure an electrical or physical
phenomenon such as Voltage, Current, temperature, pressure and sound
• PC-based Data uses a combination of modular hardware application
Software and a computer to take measurements
• Data Acquisition is a process of acquiring signals from real world phenomena
Digitizing the signals analyzing presenting and saving the data
• The DAQ systems has following
parts
• Physical inputs/output signals
• DAQ device/hardware
• Driver Software
• Application Software



Physical input/output signal
• A physical input/output signal is typically a voltage or current signal
DAQ Device/Hardware
• DAQ hardware acts as the interface between the computer and the
outside world
• It Primarily functions as a device that digitizes incoming analog signals
so that the computer can interpret them
• A DAQ device(Data Acquisition Hardware) usually has these functions
• Analog i/p
• Analog o/p
• Digital I/o
• Counter/Timer



• Different DAQ devices such as
• “Desktop DAQ devices” where we
need to plug a PCI DAQ board
into the computer. The Software
is running on the computer
• “Portable DAQ devices” for connection
to USB port Wi-Fi connections etc
The Software is running on Computer
• “Distributed DAQ devices” Where the
software is developed on the computer
and then downloaded to the distributed
DAQ device



Driver Software
• Driver Software is the layer of software for easily communicating with the hardware
• Its forms the Middle Layer between the Application software and the hardware
• Driver Software also prevents a programmer from having to register level programming
or complicated commands in order to access the hardware functions
• Driver Software from NI : NI-DAQmx
Application Software
• Application Software adds analysis and presentation capabilities to the driver software.
The software applications does the tasks as
• Real Time Monitoring
• Data analysis
• Data logging
• Control Algorithms
• Human Machine interface(HMI)
• In order to create a DAQ application we need a programming development tool such as
Visual Studio/C#, Lab View etc



MAX – Measurement and Automation Explorer
• Measurements and Automation Explorer ( MAX) provides access to the National
Instruments devices
• With MAX we can
• Configure our NI hardware and software
• Create and edit channels, tasks, interfaces, scales, and virtual Instruments
• Execute system diagnostics
• View devices and instruments connected to the system
• Update the NI software



DAQ in MATLAB
• It is used to create DAQ applications with or without Measurement Studio
in both situation NI – DAQmx driver library is needed
NI – DAQmx
• NI provides a native .NET API for NI – DAQmx. This is available as a part of
the NI – DAQmx driver and does not require Measurement Studio
• Data Acquisition Programming with DAQmx involves the following steps
• Start the task
• Perform a read operation
• Perform a write operation to DAQ
• Stop and clear the task
• Data Acquisition is a text – based programming is similar to Lab View
NI – DAQmx programming its function calls is same as NI – DAQmxVIs



DAQ Application
Introduction
• Data Acquisition Toolbox in MATLAB create a simple Data Acquisition application
• A simple DAQ applications should follow these steps
• Initialization
• Read/Write
• Clean Up
• Initialization
creating a device object
In Initialization we need to specify what kind of device we are using. we can analog input()
And analog output() function in data acquisition toolbox
Example
ai = analog input (‘nidaq’, ‘Dev1’);
and:
ao= analog output (‘nidaq’, Dev1’);



• The data Acquisition Toolbox supports DAQ devices from different vendors. In order to use a
Device from NI we need to set “nidaq” as the adapter name.DevX is the default name created
By the system
• Adding channels
Example: ai0 = addchannel(ai, 0);
• Read/Write
Example: a0_value =3.5;
putsample(a0,a0_value)
ai_value= getsample(ai)
• Cleanup
delete(a1)



Sample Code
% Write and Read to a NI USB-6008 DAQ device
clear
clc
% Initialization-----------------------
% Analog Input:
ai = analoginput('nidaq', 'Dev1');
% Analog Output:
ao = analogoutput('nidaq', 'Dev1');
% Adding Channels-----------------------
% Analog Input - Channel 0
ai0 = addchannel(ai, 0);



ao0 = addchannel(ao, 0);
% Write Data---------------------------
ao_value = 3.5;
putsample(ao, ao_value)
% Read Data----------------------------
ai_value = getsample(ai)
% Cleaning Up--------------------------
delete(ai)
delete(ao)



DAQ in Simulink
• Simulink has built – in blocks for data acquisition, but depending on the
version of MATLAB/Simulink they might not work properly with USB-6008
DAQ device. In that case we can call MATLAB function from Simulink
Simulink/Data Acquisition Toolbox (R2007a) is used



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