Diseño de una Interfaz Labview y Arduino e Implementación de un Programa Aplicado a la Máquina de Vacío del Laboratorio de Mecánica

Abstract

Currently, there are many tools that facilitate the control applications that are handled in the industry so that a process is carried out; however, some of them may be economically unfavorable. The purpose of this document is to present an instructions manual, whose content allows to interpret in a simple manner, each of the elements used for the development of an interface between the Arduino microcontroller and LabVIEW software, which can replace those tools that are not accessible for exclusively academic practices and even for simple industrial programming applications to control machinery and equipment. This interface will allow the Máquina de vacío FESTO located in the Mechanical Laboratory of the Francisco José de Caldas District University - Technology Faculty, through a program implemented in the first instance in ladder language and modified to logic floodgates to obtain Boolean results, that is, obtain 1 or 0 as the case may be and be able to run in LabVIEW, complete a stage of verification of its elements and a stage of production simulation under certain parameters established in the development of the programming. Thanks to this interface, the students will have a pleasant experience with the software, since the graphic being, it will be possible to observe the activation and deactivation of the sensors and the electrovalves that the machine comprises, in the same way it will be possible to control the times of the timers in the verification stage. Additionally, the connection that was necessary to ensure that both the input signals and the output signals of the Arduino will work properly and thus achieve the communication required in this control strategy for automation processes will be explained. In the development of the project, it was essential to make an adaptation of the connection panel of the Máquina de vacío, to obtain a better distribution of the same, which allowed to reduce time and achieve a more efficient connection of the machine.