
The Linux project Control and Measurement Device Interface has drivers to many popular devices and thus helps partially address this problem. As the required information on the drivers of many popular devices are not available, one has to depend on propriety data acquisition and control systems. As a result, the students who are trained only on a propriety software find themselves handicapped on joining industry. The only available solutions are proprietary, and are often expensive, at least to the industry. INTRODUCTION Engineering institutes and colleges in a developing country need a low cost solution to data acquisition and control applications. We also present PyGTK based improved graphical user interface for GNURadio. The device drivers given in COMEDI are used to access real time data. The computations can be carried out using OpenCV or Scilab and Xcos.


GNURadio gives a convenient graphical front end. The proposed solution uses GNURadio, OpenCV, Scilab, Xcos and COMEDI on Linux. of Computer Science, Amrita University, Coimbatore, Abstract: This article describes an attempt to create an open source equivalent to the data acquisition and control software LabVIEW. Moudgalya Rakesh Peter Systems & Control Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Chemical Engineering and Systems & Control Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Dept. 1 Preprints of the 8th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes The International Federation of Automatic Control GNURadio, Scilab, Xcos and COMEDI for Data Acquisition and Control: An Open Source Alternative to LabVIEW Jagdish Y.
