HELP: controlling a mechatronic system using labview

[willist2]

Hi, I'm new tto LABView and am having difficulty with this project. I have to interfave a mechatronic FLITE board to a PC and control it using LABView. I have an interface card which has enough D I/O. What should be my frst steps? Do I need a driver or should I create one?  Thanks,

Tom

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

Is the FLITE board an external board or is it a PCI board?

[willist2]

The FLITE board is an external mechatronic board. It is originally used with PIC's as a tutorial board,  but I need to interface and control it with a PC using labview.

[hannahW]

Hi Tom,

What is the DIO interface card that you mentioned? Do you have a driver for this card? If this is an NI card then you can download the driver from our website. If you let me know which board it is then I can point you in the right direction. If it isn't then you should contact the manufacturer to see if the have a driver. Usually they will be able to supply you with a dll or if your lucky a LabVIEW driver. You'll need some kind of driver to control the digital I/O lines.

The next step is to look at the external FLITE board, do you have any information about how to program it? What functionality does this have and how do you drive this, if it was originally used as a tutorial board - you should have some information about this.

The first thing to do is to work out how to program the DIO interface and then work out which DIO lines you need to drive to control the FLITE board.

If you can give me some more info about this, then I can help suggest examples of LabVIEW code.

Regards

Hannah

NIUK & Ireland

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

Is it a board like this?

http://www.flite.co.uk/flite-pic-trainer.htm

I'm not sure why you want to interface it to LabVIEW. That board is geared towards running a program that is downloaded to the PIC microprocessor from a PC via a parallel port.

If you just want to control some DIO, you might as well just buy a DIO board. They are not expensive.

Message Edited by nyc on 02-03-2006 03:57 PM

[willist2]

nyc - unfortunately that isn't the board that i am using. I am using a PIC tutorial board, but need to interfave it using LABView. Thanks for you help anyway.

HannahW - Thanks for the information. Any help you can give me will be greatly welcomed. I will reply to you soon with more information about the project.