Title :
Application of virtual instrumentation in a power engineering laboratory
Author :
Arsalan, Qamar H. ; Filbeck, Amanda ; Gedra, Thomas W.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a few of the OSU-Stillwater Power Engineering Laboratory capabilities. Digital signal acquisition and virtual instrumentation (National Instruments´ LABVIEW software) are used to help students understand the concepts by visualizing the data. Some features of virtual instrumentation are real-time display of waveforms, phasor diagrams, real and reactive power, spectral analysis as well as the ability to interpret the data graphically. Some techniques for improved laboratory practice as well as the laboratory capabilities concerning experiments of transformers and rotating machines are presented.
Keywords :
data acquisition; data visualisation; electric machines; graphical user interfaces; power engineering education; power system measurement; power transformers; virtual instrumentation; data visualization; digital signal acquisition; graphical data interpretation; laboratory practice; phasor diagrams; power engineering laboratory; reactive power; real power; real-time waveform display; rotating machines; spectral analysis; transformers; virtual instrumentation; Application software; Data visualization; Displays; Instruments; Laboratories; Power engineering; Reactive power; Rotating machines; Spectral analysis; Transformers;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2002. MWSCAS-2002. The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7523-8
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.2002.1187311
