Simple data acquisition unit for school laboratory exercises

Author

Dostálek, Petr ; Dolinay, Jan ; Vasek, Vladimir

Author_Institution

Fac. of Appl. Inf., Tomas Bata Univ. in Zlin, Zlin, Czech Republic

fYear

2011

fDate

25-28 May 2011

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

88

Abstract

Paper deals with design of general purpose microcontroller-based data acquisition device suitable for all tasks related to process measurement with focus on laboratory exercises. Hardware design is fully adapted to requirements such as high reliability and immunity against industrial environment, very low power consumption enabling battery operation when used with laptop computer, platform independent communication interface, compact dimensions and finally high precision. Functionality of designed data acquisition device was verified on educational laboratory heat plant connected via RS232 communication interface with supervision computer running Matlab 7.3 software.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; data acquisition; laboratories; microcontrollers; peripheral interfaces; Matlab 7.3 software; RS232 communication interface; educational laboratory heat plant; hardware design; laptop computer; low power consumption; microcontroller based data acquisition device; platform independent communication interface; process measurement; school laboratory exercises; supervision computer; Analog-digital conversion; Data acquisition; Laboratories; Libraries; Microcontrollers; Pins; Software; Frescale HC08; Matlab; data acqusition; microcontroller; process control; process monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Carpathian Control Conference (ICCC), 2011 12th International

Conference_Location

Velke Karlovice

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-360-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CarpathianCC.2011.5945821

Filename

5945821