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DC Motor Speed Control in Labview

The document discusses creating a virtual instrument (VI) in LabVIEW to control the speed of a DC motor. It provides step-by-step instructions to create a GUI with buttons to control the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation, acceleration, deceleration, and stopping of a DC motor. The VI uses serial communication between an Arduino and LabVIEW to send motor commands and display them on an LCD. Flowcharts and block diagrams are presented to illustrate the algorithm and connections between components.

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DC Motor Speed Control in Labview

The document discusses creating a virtual instrument (VI) in LabVIEW to control the speed of a DC motor. It provides step-by-step instructions to create a GUI with buttons to control the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation, acceleration, deceleration, and stopping of a DC motor. The VI uses serial communication between an Arduino and LabVIEW to send motor commands and display them on an LCD. Flowcharts and block diagrams are presented to illustrate the algorithm and connections between components.

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Hello everyone! I hope you all will be absolutely fine and having fun.

Today, I am going to
share my knowledge with all of you guys, about how to make a simple Virtual Instrument
(VI) for DC Motor Speed Control in LabVIEW. In my previous tutorials, I have worked
on DC Motor Speed Control using Arduino, in which I have controlled the DC Motor Speed
using Arduino and after that I made some advancements in it and then created DC Motor
Speed Control in Matlab in which commands were sent from Matlab. So, now we are gonna
do the DC Motor Speed Control in LabVIEW.If you are working on DC Motor then you
should also have a look at DC Motor Direction Control using Arduino.
In this tutorial, I am going to work on the program for DC Motor speed Control using NI
LabVIEW. So, before going into the detail of this tutorial, you must go through my previous
tutorials because I am going to use the same hardware setup and Arduino source code with
a bit modification. I will made a simple GUI (Graphical User Interface) for DC Motor
Speed Control in LabVIEW. There will be five different buttons on the GUI for clockwise
rotation, counter clockwise rotation, stopping the stepper motor, accelerating and
deaccelerating the stepper motor respectively.

DC MOTOR SPEED CONTROL IN LABVIEW


In the tutorial DC Motor Speed Control in LabVIEW, I will explain you a complete step by
step procedure to control the clockwise and counter clockwise direction of the DC motor as
well as accelerating and deacelerating it with the help of the buttons on the GUI created in
NI LabVIEW using serial communication between Arduino and NI LabVIEW.

 You can download the complete simulation for DC Motor Speed Control in LabVIEW
here:
LabVIEW Simulation

 Download .rar file, extract the files from the folder and enjoy the complete DC Motor
Speed Control in LabVIEW simulation.
Flow Chart
 First of all I would like you to explain the algorithm of DC Motor Speed Control in
LabVIEW with the help of a flow chart.
 Flow chart for this project is shown in the figure below.
 The figure given above can help you to understand the entire algorithm for DC Motor
Speed Control in LabVIEW.
Block Diagram
 You can see the assembling of all the components used in DC Motor Speed Control in
LabVIEW, in the block diagram.
 Block diagram for this particular tutorial is shown in the figure below.
 Initially commands are exchanged from NI LabVIEW to the Arduino using serial
communication.
 Then Arduino transfers these commands to L98 motor controller, hence in this way the
DC motor.
 LCD displays the executed commands.
Vitual Instrument’s (VI’s) Description
 First of all open NI LabVIEW software on your laptop or PC.
 Go to the Block Diagram window and Right Click on it.
 Go to Functions-> Instrument I/O-> Serial and you can see different serial blocks like
VISA Write, VISA Read, VISA Serial etc.
 Choose the encircled VISA Configure Serial Port and place it on the Block Diagram
window.
 VISA Configure Serial Port block will help us to open the Serial Port before executing the
algorithm.
 The screen shot of the Block Diagram is shown in the figure below.
 Go to the first input terminal of the VISA Configure Serial Port block and go to Create->
Control.
 Above step will be helpful to select the COM port of the Arduino board in order to run the
program properly.
 Updated Block Diagram window is shown in the figure below.
 Now go to Functions-> Instrument I/O-> Serial, you can see there different serial
blocks.
 Choose the encircled VISA Close block and place it on the Block Diagram window.
 The VISA Close block is shown in the figure below and it will be help in closing the Serial
Port if needed.
 Now, go to the Functions-> Programming-> Structures and you can see the different
structures there like For Loop, While Loop, Case Structure etc.
 Choose the encircled block as shown i the figure below.
 Place all the above blocks in a way shown in the figure below.

 Now, go to the Functions-> Programming-> Structures-> Flat Sequence.


 Flat sequence block is encircled and is shown in the figure below.
 Put your cursor and go to Add Frame After.
 Similarly ad another case after this as shown in the figures below.
 Newly added frame is shown in the figure below.
 Now, go to Functions-> Instrument I/O-> Serial, you can see different serial blocks
there.
 Choose the encircled VISA Write Block and place it on the Block diagram window.
 The figure shown below elaborates the above steps.
 Make the connections as shown in the figure below.
 Now, go the Functions-> Programming-> Structures and you can see different types of
structures like for loop, while loop, flat sequence etc.
 Choose he encircled block as shown in the figure below.

 Select the Case Structure block and place it on the block diagram window.
 The figure shown below displays the above step.

 Now, go to the input terminal of the write block and go to Create-> Control.
 Change the name of this block to Command box as shown in the figure below.
 The block diagram window is shown in the figure below.
 Now, go to Functions-> Programming-> Structures and you can see different
structures blocks there.
 Choose the encircled block as shown in the figure below.
 Select the Local Variable Block and place it on the Front Panel.
 Right click on it and select Command box as shown in the figure below.

 Go to the input terminal of this local variable and go to Create-> Constant.


 Place C inside that constant.
 The figure below elaborates the above step.

 The above case structure is for the clock wise rotation of the stepper motor.
 Similarly make four further case structures for counter clockwise rotation, accelerating,
de-accelerating and stopping the rotation of the stepper motor.
 All the three case structures are shown in the figure below.
 You can see three different case structures in above figure.
 The command box variable having command C will rotate the stepper motor in clockwise
direction.
 A command box variable having command A will rotate the stepper motor in counter
clockwise direction.
 The command box variable having command H will rotate the stepper motor at higher
and higher speed if it is rotating with a lower speed.
 A command box variable having command L will rotate the stepper motor with slower and
slower speed if it is rotating at a higher speed.
 .
 The command box variable having command S will stop the rotation of the stepper motor.
 Now, go to the Front Panel and Right Click on it.
 Go to Controls-> Modern-> Boolean and you can see there different Boolean blocks.
 Choose the encircled block as shown in the figure below.
 Select the Round LED block and place it on the front panel.
 Similarly select two more round LED blocks and place them on the front panel as well.
 Change their names from default to Clockwise, Anti clockwise,Stop Motor,
Accelerate andDeaccelerate.
 All of the above steps are explained visually in the figure shown below.
 The LED shown in the above figure will control the stepper motor on clock wise, counter
clock wise direction and will stop the motor as well.
 Now go to the block diagram window and connect these blocks as shown in the figure
below.

 At the end, after sending all the commands we must need to close the serial port so that
unnecessary exchange of commands could be avoided.
 So I have cleared the all the commands in third frame of the case structure i.e I am
sending no commands through the serial port.
 This will be helpful in closing the serial port.
 The figure show below explains all of the above steps visually.
 Now add another case structure to start the program when you want so.
 The figure below shows the newly added case structure.
 Now, go to the Front Panel, the button encircled in the figure shown below is used to start
the program when needed.

 Now add a Stop button in order to terminate the program whenever you want so.
 The complete output of the program is shown in the figure below.

 A complete NI LabVIEW Virtual Instrument (VI) is shown in the figure below.

 I have decorated the front panel to make it attractive for the users.
 The final look of the Front panel is shown in the figure below.
 Go to Controls, Modern-> Decorations you can see different decoration blocks there.
 All these blocks are shown in the figure displayed below.
 I have used three decoration blocks encircled with the blue color, to decorate my
program.
 Red boundary shows all of the decoration blocks to make your program attractive.
 You can also decorate your programs using this amazing tools.
That is all from the tutorial DC Motor Speed Control in LabVIEW. I hope you enjoyed this
tutorial. If you face any sort of problem you can ask me anytime without even feeling any
kind of hesitation. I will try my level best to solve your issues in some better way, if possible.
I will explore NI LabVIEW, will make different projects on it and will share them with all of
you as well. Till then, Take care

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