Intro to LV in 3 Hours for Control and Sim 8_5.ppt

The Simulation Time Waveform chart is a special numeric indicator that displays one or more plots. The waveform chart is located on the Functions ? Control Design Simulation ? Simulation ? Graph Utilities ? SimTime Waveform palette. Waveform charts can display single or multiple plots. The following front panel shows an example of a multi-plot waveform chart. You can change the min and max values of either the x or y axis by double clicking on the value with the labeling tool and typing the new value. Similarly, you can change the label of the axis. You can also right click the plot legend and change the style, shape, and color of the trace that is displayed on the chart. Exercise Instructions can be found at the end of PDF version of this manual or independently as “Updated Exercise Instructions.pdf”. The controller can be optimized by fully understanding the plant. This understanding comes from analysis done in the LabVIEW Control Design Toolkit. Specialized graphs, such as Bode, root-locus, and Nyquist plot, builds intuition of how the plant will behave. Further analysis using these plots with an open loop system with the controller allow stability and other characteristics to be calculated. In this way, we use Control Design to optimize the parameters, in our case the gains P, I, and D. Graphs in the time domain, such as the step response, provide immediate feedback on the ideal behavior of the system, such as rise time, overshoot, settling time, and steady-state error. We then use the Simulation Module to validate these parameters under real world constraints. One prime example is the maximum and minimum voltage and current available to be supplied to the motor. The voltage limits of the motor define the linear range of operation. Outside of that range, the motor might be damaged or become unpredictable. This is an example of nonlinear behavior, which cannot be modeled using LTI analysis found in the Control Design Toolkit. The Simulation Module all