State Machines

[Bluncken]

Hello!

I'm quite new to LabVIEW and are searching for information about the standard state machines. How to make them and so on.

Anyone have any good suggestions of books?

Or any links in their collection that thew are willing to share?

[Phillip Brooks]

Welcome to the LAVA forums!

I would suggest that you start by looking at the examples and templates included with the more recent versions of LabVIEW.

You can also refer to the wiki pages here on LAVA, specifically: http://wiki.lavag.org/State_Machine

[PaulG.]

A quick search of NI's Developer Zone:

http://search.ni.com/nisearch/main/p/sn/ca...State%20Machine

Should give you plenty to read.

[pallen]

Hey there,

You've already got the good links. But also have a search for Statechart on the NI site. It's an add-on toolkit for LabVIEW that you might find useful.

I'm still learning the in's and out's of it at the moment. But I really liked the State Diagram Toolkit that this new tool is replacing. It helped visualize program flow at a higher level during initial development, and made it easier to understand completed programs that others had made.

LabVIEW also has a Standard State Machine Template that you can use by clicking "New" and selecting it from the "Frameworks" menu.

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

QUOTE (pallen @ Apr 3 2008, 10:28 AM)

... But I really liked the State Diagram Toolkit that this new tool is replacing....

Although the SDE does was replaced in the Add-ons disk by the SC, the SDE is still available if ordered sperately. I get the feeling that NI would like the SDE to just go away.

Ben

[dsachau]

Bloomy Controls has a nice state machine template here.

[MikaelH]

This is my standard layout:

Cheers,

Mikael

[hviewlabs]

More advanced state machine patterns:

EDQSM:

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=19231

LabHSM:

http://labhsm.com