06-18-2021 12:19 PM
Hi Good people,
I am using this attached VI to measure Force, acceleration, and calculating the displacement from the measured force. I am observing there is a phase lag between the force, acceleration and calculated displacement. One loop time (4ms) phase lag may be present but I am observing around 40ms between the displacement and the force. I am wondering whether my program is correct or I did any mistake in the program. Could you please help me with my problem? Thank you.
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06-18-2021 02:04 PM - edited 06-18-2021 02:09 PM
No, the program is not correct. I'm not able to analyze all the possible ways, here are just a few things to start:
1. You haven't taken steps to synchronize the tasks. Look into topics like "channel expansion" and triggering.
2. Your force measurement appears to use a bridge module, which will almost certainly use a Delta-Sigma converter that induces a delay in the signal path. Your acceleration measurement is on a different module which is not likely to induce the same delay (if any at all).
3. You leave open the option to apply different digital filtering to the two measurements, each of which will induce their own delay.
4. For some reason you use a dynamic data conversion to squeeze a single tiny scalar out of your much richer multi-sample waveform data. I have no idea what you should expect from that, I have dutifully avoided dynamic data whenever possible which is virtually always.
5. You've overconstrained your loop timing. You shouldn't combine a Timed Loop with DAQmx Read calls that request a specific # of samples. Either the # samples will require more time to accumulate (in which case the Timed Loop is pointless and a standard While Loop would have been better), or the Timed Loop interval will be longer than the time needed to accumulate those samples (in which case you'll eventually get a buffer overflow error from your DAQmx task).
6. Not exactly *incorrect*, but the code is much too large & cluttered to digest and understand easily. Many more problems may be lurking, but I for one don't have the extra time needed to search for them.
7. Your many uses of local variables are *probably* setting you up for several race condition problems (when do the values get read relative to when they get written? Is it guaranteed to be consistent?) that I don't have time to analyze in depth.
8. You'd be doing your present and future self a favor by:
a. bundling related scalar values into clusters and always bundle/unbundle by name
b. learning about how & why those clusters should be made into "typedefs".
c. creating subvi's for various aspects of your numerical processing, preferably using some of these typedef'ed clusters to reduce the # of input and output wires.
d. using the typedef'ed clusters will also let you greatly reduce the # of individual shift registers you need, which in turn will help reduce the wire clutter. And then the bundle/unbundle by name operations become self-documenting so you don't need all the individual text labels for the individual wires and tunnels.
-Kevin P
06-18-2021 02:27 PM
Hi Kevin,
Thank you very much for your detailed feedback. I am not good at LabVIEW, almost novice. Could you please help me a little bit more to develop the VI as per your suggestion?
06-18-2021 06:02 PM
@Kevin_Price wrote:
1. You haven't taken steps to synchronize the tasks. Look into topics like "channel expansion" and triggering.
Something like below may work with channel expansion since your modules are in the same chassis. (There may still be a phase shift between the two, but it will be locked at constant throughout the experiment.) See how everything is combined in the same task?
Get rid of the timed loop. Set the read to collect N samples; the loop time will (NSamples)/(Sampling Rate).
mcduff
06-21-2021 07:34 AM
Hi,
Thank you very much. I will try this one and let you know.
06-21-2021 08:37 AM
Could you please help me regarding the attached VI? I am trying to synchronize the accelerometer and force accusation but the VI is not working.
06-21-2021 09:29 AM
What is the error with the VI?
Why are you setting Continuous Samples and then have no loop to collect them?
If you just want to test the sync, why not try finite sample below and take 10000 samples, see below.
I like to have integer sample rates, the Q&R function will not give correct answers for all possible n from 1 - 32; you may need to change it division if needed. Below are allowed sample rates along with n.
mcduff
06-21-2021 09:51 AM
Hi mcduff,
I am getting this error message when running the VI.
06-21-2021 10:23 AM
The error appears to be self-explanatory, did you try something like this?
06-21-2021 10:31 AM
Hi mcduff,
I tried that and it was showing the error message as shown in the attached file.