Using Arduino with labview to do a railway command station

[simon82]

Hi,

i would like to design a railway command station for using arduino UNO with labview. Any suggestion?

Samuel

[Nathan_B.]

The only suggestion that I could give you based on the tiny amount of information that you have given is to use LINX isntead of LIFA.  LIFA is old and unsupported.  LINX is the new version of LIFA with support for more microcontrollers.

http://www.labviewhacker.com/linx

[simon82]

Hi Nathan,

I'm trying to do something as the following objective mention below:

"Railed vehicles ranging from conveyer belts sushi restaurant to mass transit railway system are

widely employed in modern day infrastructure. In some designs, these vehicles are powered on

rail to reduce the investment involved in setting up a separate power network. To optimally utilise

physical resources, whenever appropriate, control commands issued by the station master may

also be superimposed on the live power. This title aims at setting up a physical prototype for

demonstrating an innovative application of LabVIEW in implementing a digital station master."

Are you able to guide me with the following objective?

[Nathan_B.]

That sounds like a homework problem/project for school.  Is that what it is?

It still doesn't provide enough information as to how you are going to be using the Arduino.

[simon82]

Hi Nathan,

Yes. This is a homework problem. As i had zero or little knowledge of both labview & Arduino. Therefore, i would like to have a little guidance in how to design the programme in labview in order to send the information to Arduino, so that the Arduino UNO together with Arduino Motor shield are able to send the pulse to the model railway track. So that the track can activate the model train to move forward & reverse according to the pulse given by the Arduino.

[Nathan_B.]

I highly recommend that you take some time to learn the basics of LabVIEW before starting with any Arduino stuff.  Here is one place to start but you can find an abundant amount of information online.  Also, I recommend that you install LINX and look at the examples.  Then, find out more about your specific requirements of the Arduino (What types of sensors/output devices will you be using?  What types of signals do you need to use said devices? etc.) to make sure that the Arduino with LINX (or LIFA for very rare situations) can actually do what you need to do.

With all the information that you've given, I still can't really help you.  I won't help you solve the homework problem.  But, if I have time (no guarantee), I might be able to help with specific LabVIEW/Arduino problems.  However, if you end up using LINX, you should post your specific problems in the LINX forums.