A. Virtual Instrumentation and Control Technology (VICT) centre: Organized and executed from scratch the design and development of Virtual Instrumentation and Control Technology (VICT) under the department of ICE. The state of the art hardware components are surveyed worldwide and proposed for procurement. The proposed centre will be able to the future research needs of the department and new industry oriented short term courses are planned to be introduced in addition to the M. Tech. program in Virtual Instrumentation.
B. Development of Instrumentation Lab: Planned and developed from scratch the “Instrumentation lab” at NSIT. The lab aims as a novel experimental teaching aid to the students of Instrumentation and Control Engineering at UG and PG levels in addition to the students from Manufacturing and Process Automation Engineering. The facilities in the lab are for teaching the fundamentals of the instrumentation including both the classical trainer based desktop kits and also the latest state of the art computer based systems on virtual instrumentation. Various types of transducers, data acquisition systems and Virtual Instrumentation using LabVIEW are the main components in the laboratory in addition to the computing facility. This lab has become famous among the students and many top ranking students have dream to work and get associated to this laboratory. Industrial consultancies are the next components being planned to be introduced in the lab. Following are the key instrumentation systems in this laboratory:
1) PDS LabVIEW S/W
2) Multisim
3) Matlab
4) NI-PXI based FPGAs
5) NI DAQs
6) NI-ElVIS
7) Electrodynamic shaker system
8) Fluke dry well thermal calibrator (-20degC – 120 degC)
9) PC based Measurement of
Acceleration,
Temperature,
Strain,
Displacement using LVDT
10) GC
11) AAS
12) DMMs
13) AFGs
14) DSOs
15) Spectrum analyzer