HESC 417/617
Laboratory Instrumentation
Fall 2011
Instructor: James G. Richards, Ph.D.
Office: 210A Human Performance Laboratory
Phone: 831-7029
e-mail: jimr@udel.edu
Office Hours: MW, 9am-12pm

   
Software: LabVIEW 2010 Student Edition Software .
  Link to 2010 LabView Student Edition download from e-Academy: LINK
   
Grading: Course grades will be determined by evaluation of the homework assignments (70%), and in-class quizzes (30%). Quizzes will be given after every Green Bay loss. In the event that 2 games are played in 1 week, any loss will result in a quiz. If both games are lost, it will be a really big quiz. If no game is played, the win or loss from the previous week will carry over.
   
Assignments: Assignments are due by 4:00pm on the Monday after they were assigned. For example, Assignment 1 is due by 4:00pm on September 20th. Email all VIs and associated subVIi's as attachments to jimr@udel.edu.
   
Goals: 1) To develop a functional understanding of the LabView programming environment
  2) To develop a functional understanding of computer programming structures
  3) To demonstrate the ability to create programs that read, write, analyze and display real data
  4) To demonstrate the ability to collect data from various sensors
  5) To demonstrate the ability to implement software solutions to complex problems
  6) To develop a functional understanding of operational amplifiers
  7) To demonstrate the ability to create circuits that measure muscle activity
  8) To demonstrate the ability to integrate electrical sensors with data acquisition and processing software

Tentative Outline
Date Topic Auxiliary Files and In-Class Examples
September 12 Semester Overview, Policies, Introduction to LabView Programming Environment  
September 19 Arrays and Loops: Part 1 KneeAngleWaveform.vi, In Class Program
September 26

Arrays and Loops: Part 2, Case Structures

 HeartRateData.vi, UnZero 1D Array, Remove Zeros vi
October 3 Clusters, Building SubVI's gaitdata.txt, personal.dat, InClassReadTextFile, InClass.txt
October 10 Reading Text Files, 3D Graphs Part 1, Sequence Structures MaxTraqData, MaxTraqAVI
October 17 Strings Part 2, Sorting, and 3D Graphs ReadTRBLite.vi, FloatPC.vi, ABC-BAC.vi, Walk5.trb
October 24 Processing Forceplate Data fpcal.jpg, Forcepla.cal(TM), ReadANB690.vi, RemLeadBlank.vi, 1250_mms1.anb, AMTI Calibration Document
October 31 Collecting Analog Data Hardware Supply List, DAQMx Link
November 7 Resistors and capacitors Reading Resistors, Reading Capacitors , Chip Pinouts
November 14 Wheatstone bridges, low impedance differential amplifiers Op Amp circuits,  Wheatstone bridge
November 21 High Impedance Differential Amplifiers EKG Circuit Diagram
November 28 Work on EMG Project  
December 5 Topics from Students