Department of Electrical Engineering

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

EE275: Measurement Laboratory

Virtual Instrumentation Assignment-1
1. Use Labview to simulate a sine wave (name it as INPUT VOLTAGE). Create controls to set frequency, amplitude, phase, sampling rate and number of samples to be acquired. The amplitude, frequency and phase angle of the sine wave are 12 V, 50 Hz and 30o respectively. Set suitable sampling rate, acquire four cycles and display the wave in a waveform graph. Similarly simulate another sine wave (name it as INPUT CURRENT) with a phase shift of 600. Acquire four cycles and display the wave in the same waveform graph as above. To differentiate between the two signals display current in red color. From the two waveforms (Imagine that their magnitude and phase are unknown) find Active Power, Reactive Power, Apparent Power, and Power Factor (measured values). Find the half cycle average value of each waveform. Do direct calculation (actual values) using labview and find the absolute, relative and percentage error from actual and measured quantities. What is the effect of sampling rate on these errors? 2. The emf generated due to temperature rise in a thermocouple is given by e = a1t + a2t 2 + a3t 3 KK + an t n . The relationship for the temperature in terms of emf e is given by t = b1e + b2 e 2 + b3e3 KK + bn e n . For 00 C to 5000 C, the voltage swing is from 0 to 20.644 mV and values of b coefficients are b1= 2.508355E+01 b4= 8.315270E-02 b7= -4.413030E-05 b2= 7.860106E-02 b5= -1.228034E-02 b8= 1.057734E-06 b3= -2.503131E-01 b6= 9.804036E-04 b9= -1.052755E-08

Use look-up table to compute emf at 10 different temperatures (uniformly spaced through out the range). Using the obtained emfs compute the temperature using the given equation. Find the rms error, maximum error and average error. Which of these errors is undesirable and why?