FSAE Instrumentation Project

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FSAE Instrumentation Project

• Meeting 2 1/24/2008

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Necessary Acronyms

• FPGA Field programmable gate array
• I/O Input/Output
• cRIO Compact Reconfigurable I/O
• LabVIEW Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation
  Engineering Workbench
• FTP File transfer protocol
• USB Universal serial bus

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Current Progress

• Shock position sensor selected
• Steering position sensor pending
• cRIO mount designed
• LabVIEW Programming
• Support from Natl Instruments, Noah Reding
• Read/write capabilities, successfully downloaded
  data using FTP
• Pressure transducer testing
• Bench testing against analog gauge on supply
• Wiring harness development

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Shock Position Sensor Mount
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cRIO Mount
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LabVIEW Programming

• Voltage FPGA Program

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LabVIEW Programming

• Voltage Differential Real Time program
• Numeric scaling/conversion

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Pressure Sensor Testing

• Pressure Sensor
• Differential output
• Op amp requirement

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Now for the demo
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Wiring diagram
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Current Outlook

• Examine/test wireless operation
• Finalize sensor selection and ordering
• Specify hardware components for wiring harness
• Build cRIO mount
• Write LabVIEW code for thermocouples