Biaxial Tensile

In collaboration with Professor Dr. Richard Leask from the Leask Laboratory at McGill (http://leask-lab.mcgill.ca/), Professor Dr. Elena Di Martino from the Univercity of Calgary and the help of the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC – http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/index_fra.asp), we have built an open and flexible Biaxial tensile specifically position for tissues.

The system allows for displacement by force or distance with a precision in the µm and impeccable repeatability. You have the option to build your own displacement profile or use a default profile. It is also possible to add a camera in order to constantly track, measure and monitor the specimen through the experiment.

Cases Studies

Calling a VI from the Stimulus Profile Editor – Possible?

NI VeriStand is an open environment that offers a powerful solution for many application areas, from the rapid control prototyping, to the HIL tests or simpler real-time data logging applications. VeriStand is capable of executing custom LabVIEW plugins from most of its components: in the real-time engine (Custom Devices, models) or in the UI/workspace (Custom […]

NI now offers a (really) portable CAN module

National Instruments has not been a major actor in the field bus industry, but its rich platform and the versatility of the products are interesting when it comes to integrating such functionalities in a more global system (e.g. with data acquisition and/or visual inspection). Software-wise, the NI-XNET driver supports CAN (including CAN-FD and J1939), LIN […]

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Datalogger and analysis system for a wafer fabrication process

Le but de ce projet est de réaliser un système de détection de dépassement de seuil en temps réel permettant de calculer la durée de chaque étape d’un cycle de gravure à partir d’un signal échantillonné. Le logiciel est configurable pour une multitude de recettes de micro fabrication et permet de sauvegarder les résultats pour […]

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Validate CAN (J1939) interface on multiple UUTs with NI TestStand and NI LabVIEW

By using LabVIEW and TestStand, we were able to build a generic librairy that would enable to read/write CAN message based on the SAE J1939 standard for our customer. This librairy was architected to interface with multiple UUTs at the same time with no effort. And finally, there was a utility to monitor all CAN […]

Get rid of error 97 occurring with Microsoft Office ActiveX API in the Report Generation Toolkit

October 27th, 2017 Using the Report Generation Toolkit you might face a strange Error 97. This error might happen if the Microsoft Office version with which your LabVIEW code has been done came to change (new version installed on the computer or code/exe moved to a computer with a different version). Solving this problem is […]

Automated Fine Guidance Sensor alignment system

The goal was to automate the alignment of the Fine Guidance Sensor of a telescope. The final system aligned several telescopes mounted in an aluminum structure that is required to withstand space conditions (in a near vacuum and at -250°C). One of the goals for this system was to find the exact position of each […]

Real-time machine vision Optical Fiber inspection

The goal of the optical fiber inspection project is to detect defaults during manufacturing in order to mark it and not ship these out of specification fiber. The inspection is done using two cameras at 90 degrees apart. This application also detects concentricity errors (in percent) of the cladding and the coating of the optical […]

Machine Vision for real-time detection and correction of textile tissue misalignment

The goal of this project is to detect and correct any textile tissue misalignment in real-time during manufacturing. Misalignment detection involves capturing images of the fabric layers and then processes them to determine if the alignment is within the specification. Since the assembly line is very fast, the analysis algorithm had to keep their executing […]

What can you do with your Windows XP based system?

April 4th 2017 Since April 8th 2014, Microsoft stoped supporting Windows XP officially. This means, no more update, not even security updates nor support. When looking into migrating your system, several aspects must be taken into consideration. National Instruments has a public document on the subject that is available at: http://www.ni.com/newsletter/52276/en/ In summary, you need: […]

Build vs Buy

April 18th 2017 For a majority of our projects, our customer and us are constantly face the dilemma of Build vs Buy. This is typically not a straightforward answer to a problem. In these cases, we’ll narrow down a couple of options and then do a quick financial model to determine, to the best of […]