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Tufan Koç 1 and Durmus Karayel 1 and Baris Boru 1 and Vezir Ayhan 2 and Idris Cesur 2 and Adnan Parlak 3
Academic Editor:Hakan Serhad Soyhan
1, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Technology Faculty, Sakarya University, 54187 Sakarya, Turkey
2, Department of Mechanics Engineering, Technology Faculty, Sakarya University, 54187 Sakarya, Turkey
3, Department of Ship Machines Operating Engineering, Naval Architecture and Maritime Faculty, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Received 25 September 2013; Revised 2 December 2013; Accepted 5 December 2013; 10 February 2014
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1. Introduction
In recent years, an increase in the number of motor vehicles has been witnessed. In parallel with this development, new issues such as energy saving, emission reduction, environmental protection, and demand for safety have been included in the agenda of human beings. Thus, it has become necessary to produce the engines which can meet these new requirements. This case increases the importance of functional tests. Therefore, the researchers have focused their studies on the development of new testing units. During engine tests, researchers have to control several parameters at the same time and they need to record lots of data. By using PC-controlled and -automated engine test units, it is very easy to carry out tests with high precision. PC-controlled test units are very expensive because of that many researchers do not have the ability to use them. In this study, we aimed to implement a low-cost and fully automated engine control system.
LabVIEW is a highly functional engineering graphical programming environment which is widely used in researches worldwide. LabVIEW has ability to connect several DAQ cards and its program execution is based on data flow. Therefore, it is widely used for data acquisition, data analysis, and data control [1]. Using LabVIEW make it possible to create visual, flexible, and scalable laboratory programs. PC-controlled engine test unit should have lots of analog I/O and digital I/O. In this study, a DAQ card has been chosen as PC I/O equipment. LabVIEW has been chosen as a programming environment because of its abilities.
A PC-controlled dynamical...