VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT BASED TEST BED FOR THE HYDRAULIC PUMP PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

The computer-aided test is very important in testing the characteristic of the hydraulic pump system; it can make the system respond rapidly, get the result more accuracy and have the visual results. In this paper, the LabVIEW software is used in the hydraulic pump performance measurement system; all the instruments and measurement parameters needed by the system were designed based on LabVIEW. For example, the signal gathering; the data processing, save and display; the curve drawing and the error processing, and so on. Two basic and important experiments are carried to validate the test system, and the results show that the measurement system can be used in laboratories and industry occasions. The measurement system can reduce some instruments, short down the test cost and the test time greatly. The software programmed by the pattern of modularization, that makes programs has a clear structure, easy to be read, maintain and expand its function.