MECHATRONICS – Experiment No.

INTERFACING OF ANY TRANSDUCER WITH DATA

AQUISITIONSYS
AIM:-

To acquire the temperature readings of temperature transducer using Data

Acquisition System (DAS).
THEORY:-

Data acquisition simply means to collect the data from respective transducer
and feed to the computer system for further processing.Here data means signal
from transducer.DAS or DAQ basically consists of sensors to measure different
physical parameters from a process and hardware to convert this into digital
form so that processing is possible in a microprocessor.DAQ include
methodology for data storage and display, and it addresses transmission of data
,if the transducers are distributed widely in a physical area.The basic block
diagram of single channel DAS is as follows.

1.PhysicalS 3.Signal 4.A/D

2.Transducer 5.Computer
ystem conditioning converter

Fig. 1 Basic Block Diagram Of Data Acquisition System (DAS).

1. Physical System: The system under study refered as physical system

whose variation in parameter need to be measured.
2. Transducer: It measures physical variables such as temperature , strain,
pressure, flow, force and motion such as displacement, velocity,
acceleration.
3. Signal conditioning:It converts the sensor outputs into signals readable
by the analog input board (A/D) in the PC.
4. Analog to digital converter: Signals from transducer after conditioning
feed to A/D converter which convert these signal into digital format usable
by the computer.
5. Computer: A computer with appropriate application software used to
process, analyse and log the data obtained from A/D converter for further
computation.
In a single channel DAS only one variable is sensed, conditioned

and transmitted to digital system for storage and display and/or for further
processing. In multichannel DAS there can be separate sensors and conditioners
for each physical parameter which call a channel and then through a multiplexer
and sample and hold circuit each signal is sent to commonanalog to digital
converter.

EXPERIMENTAL SET UP:-

Experimental set up consist of three basic blocks:

1.Transducer .
2. DAS system.
3. Computer interface.
These blocks are connected with each other is as follows,
EXPERIMENTAL OPERATION:-

1. Open the DAS10.4P and design any job name.

2. Now click on list view to get the history of the acquired data.By clicking
on the ‘Download’ button we can download the new data that is being
logged into data logger or( Data Acquisition Syatem).
3. Clicking on ‘Graph’ will show us the graphical representation of all the
logged values.
4. Clicking on ‘Print’ will print the values in the ‘List View’ format. We can
also print the values in graphical format when we opt to watch the values
graphically.
5. Clicking on the ‘Excel’ symbol will show all the values in excel format.

OBSERVATION TABLE :-

By making connections as per setup shown above following temperature

Readings were obtained.Excel and graphical repsentation of readings as shown

below.

Location L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8

Date/Time CH-1 CH-2 CH-3 CH-4 CH-5 CH-6 CH-7 CH-8

2/2/2016 9:54 0 4.7 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:54 0 4.7 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:55 0 5.8 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:55 0 5.9 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:55 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:55 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:55 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:56 0 8.2 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:56 0 8.2 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:57 0 9.9 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:57 0 9.9 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:57 0 10.1 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:57 0 10.1 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:57 0 10.1 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:58 0 10.7 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:58 0 10.7 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:58 0 12.6 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:58 0 12.6 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:59 0 14.4 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:59 0 14.4 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 9:59 0 14.4 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 10:00 0 15.7 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 10:00 0 15.7 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 10:00 0 15.7 0 0 0 0 0 142
2/2/2016 10:00 0 15.7 0 0 0 0 0 142
CONCLUSION:-

Using DAS single or multiple input signals can be fetched from transducer
and computed by using software. It is primary system for any mechatronics
application for data storage and analysis.