The use of LabView and Matlab in the development of a novel pneumotachograph

A novel pneumotachograph is currently under development which exploits the properties of the Wells turbine used in many wave energy projects during the eighties and the nineties. In order to employ a small scale model of the Wells turbine as a highly sensitive flow transducer a suitable constant speed motor controller is required. This controller has best designed and thoroughly analysed using Matlab with Simulink. Typically airflow data, collected from a pneumatachograph, needs further processing before physicians can extract relevant patient diagnostic data. The now data processing software has been developed using LabView because of its built-in capabilities specifically aimed at data acquisition and data processing