International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-21, 2004 / Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California / Flight Test instrumentation control units have traditionally been low-technology units with mechanical switches, readouts, and perhaps an RS232 interface. As the complexity of Flight Test Instrumentation systems and operational requirements increase, and as cockpit space becomes scarce, these control units are no longer sufficient. These control units need to provide capabilities commensurate with the complexity of the instrumentation systems they control. This paper describes an instrumentation control system that uses a Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) Flight Test Instrumentation designed Instrumentation Control Unit (ICU). The ICU communicates with the avionics system to allow pilot control via existing aircraft displays. By taking advantage of a relatively simple protocol to interface with the avionics system, the substantial cost of reprogramming the avionics software is avoided, and software control is shifted to the Flight Test group, thus allowing a tremendous increase in system flexibility at reasonable cost. Functions of the unit can be changed relatively quickly and inexpensively. This promises a wide range of future applications, such as in-flight monitoring of flight-critical instrumentation parameters by the pilot, control of the instrumentation system via uplink (with pilot override), and real-time in-flight selection of telemetered data streams and parameters. This paper describes the baseline instrumentation control system and requirements to be used on the EA-18G Flight Test Program, plus additional future capabilities.

Orientador: Elnatan Chagas Ferreira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T02:42:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rossi_AndersonRodrigo_M.pdf: 49446456 bytes, checksum: e180d104b943e830a31e17128fa88249 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Sabe-se que atualmente, transmissores de loop de corrente, alimentados por um host ou data logger (equipamentos de leitura e/ou armazenamento de dados) são as técnicas mais utilizadas para medição e controle distribuído. Essa transmissão, normalmente, consiste na conexão individual por meio de, no mínimo, um fio, conectando os sensores remotos ao equipamento de leitura de dados. Ressalta-se que, se faz necessária a utilização de um fio terra para o retorno da corrente elétrica juntamente a esse fio de sinal, sendo descrito no texto como "um fio". Consequentemente, com a complexidade envolvida em um processo industrial, tem-se uma grande quantidade de sensores envolvidos, de modo que a ligação de todos os sensores ocasiona uma grande quantidade de fios que convergem para o equipamento de leitura de dados, gerando uma enorme complexidade nas decisões a serem tomadas em relação à instalação e manutenção do sistema. O trabalho tem como objetivo utilizar apenas um fio para a conexão entre vários sensores e atuadores remotos e o equipamento de leitura de dados, a fim de obter, com a diminuição da quantidade de cabeamento, melhoria no controle, precisão nas decisões a serem tomadas, consequentemente, uma maior simplicidade na manutenção e expansão do sistema, além de ser bastante estável às interferências eletromagnéticas, pois o fio recebe a mesma interferência eletromagnética em toda sua extensão e esse efeito se anula permitindo a comunicação entre grandes distâncias. Trata-se de um sistema de interfaceamento de sensores inteligentes a equipamentos de leitura de dados baseado nos padrões IEEE 1451, o qual emprega uma técnica para envio e recebimento de dados e a própria alimentação dos sensores remotos utilizando apenas um fio. O sistema proposto é formado por um NCAP (Network Capable Application Processor), um TII (Transducer Independent Interface), um TIM (Transducers Interface Module), 64 sensores e 64 atuadores caracterizando 128 TransducerChannels. Foi realizado um comparativo com um sistema utilizado pela FEAGRI-UNICAMP (Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola) para a medição de temperatura no processo de armazenamento com secagem de grãos em silos por aeração forçada para a validação do sistema. Com isso pôde-se verificar as vantagens com relação à rapidez na instalação, facilidade de manutenção, redução de materiais (fios) e confiabilidade no sistema / Abstract: It's known that nowadays, current loop transmitters, fed by a host or a data logger are the most commonly used techniques to distributed measurement and control. Usually this transmission consists of an individual connection through at least a wire pair, connecting the remote sensors to the data logger. It's noted that it's necessary the use of the ground wire to electric current return with this signal wire, it's described at the text as "1 wire". Consequently, with the complexity involved in an industrial process, there is a great amount of involved sensors, in a way that all sensors connection causes a need of a great amount of wires that converge to the data reading equipment, causing a tremendous complexity around the decisions to be taken about the installation and maintenance of the system. This work has as objective using just 1-Wire (a source/communication wire and a common wire) to connect many remote sensors and actuators to the data logger, causing, with the reduction of the cabling amount, a control improvement, accuracy in the decisions to be taken, consequently, a great simplicity in the system maintenance and expansion, besides it's very stable against electromagnetic interference (EMI), because 1-Wire receives the similar EMI and it cancel this effect allowing taking possible to communicate for greater distances. This work discusses the smart sensors interface to data logger based on IEEE1451 standard and it uses a sending/receiving data and sourcing technique using just 1-Wire. The proposed system is formed by a NCAP (Network Capable Application Processor), a TII (Transducer Independent Interface), a TIM (Transducers Interface Module), 64 sensors and 64 actuators, characterizing 128 TransducerChannels. A comparison was made with a system that is used by FEAGRI-UNICAMP (College of Agricultural Engineering - University of Campinas) to measure the temperature at the storage process with grain drying in recipients by forced aeration to validate the system. Thus it can be verified the advantages related to the velocity in the installation, easier maintenance, materials reduction (wires) and reliability on the system / Mestrado / Eletrônica, Microeletrônica e Optoeletrônica / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

The use of communication networks in digital control systems introduces stability and reliability concerns. Standard reliability and safety assessment methods need further modification to accommodate the issue in the reliability assessment of networked control systems. In this thesis, it is demonstrated that the Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology (DFM) can be extended to model networked control systems. The modelling of the communication network influence on the performance of the control system is presented. The areas that can affect the reliability of the control system are identified using the methodology. The thesis also presents the application of the DFM to a nuclear-based thermochemical water splitting process for hydrogen production, the Copper-Chlorine (Cu-Cl) cycle. The architecture of a networked control system and configuration of instrumentation and control systems for the hydrogen production plant are proposed in the thesis. / UOIT

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Orientador: Sérgio Santos Mühlen / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T00:55:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernandes_LearddeOliveira_M.pdf: 4852939 bytes, checksum: 7a95fc7f08613cf9187cb12b3e4b3f50 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Em experimentos que envolvem estimulação de preparações biológicas e cuja resposta é representada por um ou mais sinais, o controle do processo de estimulação e o monitoramento dos sinais resultantes são essenciais para um melhor entendimento de como o sistema biológico responde à estimulação. Assim, este trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de desenvolver um instrumento virtual para uso em experimentos com preparações biológicas, capaz de gerar estímulos, adquirir e processar os sinais biológicos decorrentes dos estímulos, a fim de propiciar um único ambiente que atenda ao máximo os requisitos de qualquer protocolo experimental que possa envolver estimulação, aquisição e análise de sinais. Foi então desenvolvida uma plataforma virtual para experimentos em preparações biológicas de modo a automatizar o protocolo experimental de um setup. Todo o desenvolvimento dos sistemas de controle, estimulação, aquisição e processa-mento do sinal do instrumento virtual foi concebido de modo a maximizar a flexibilidade no manuseio e a generalidade nas aplicações. O sistema desenvolvido foi capaz de controlar a geração e a aplicação de estímulos (pulsos de ultras-som de potência) em preparações in vitro de corações de ratos, tornando possível automatizar todo o protocolo experimental de estimulação, adquirir os sinais de temperatura e força de contração da preparação de forma síncrona ao estímulo e pós-processar os sinais adquiridos. O instrumento virtual pode ser aplicado em diferentes setups experimentais de preparações biológicas / Abstract: In experiments involving stimulation of biological preparations and their response expressed by a given acquired signal, control of the stimulation and monitoring of the signal are essential to better understand how the biological system reacts to the stimulation. This study was conducted with the aim of developing a virtual instrument for use in experiments with biological preparations, capable of generating stimuli, acquire and process the biological signals from stimulation, providing a unique environment that meets the maximum requirements from any experimental protocol that might involve stimulation, acquisition and signal analysis. A virtual platform was developed for controlling experiments with biological preparations, making possible to automate the setup. All the development of control, stimulation and acquisition systems, and signal processing of the virtual instrument was designed to maximize the flexibility in the use, and the generality of the applications. The developed system is capable of controlling the generation and application of stimuli (pulses of power ultrasound) in an in vitro preparation of rat hearts, automating the whole experimental protocol of stimulation, acquisition of temperature and contractile force signals synchronized to the stimuli, and post-process the acquired signals. The virtual instrument can be applied in different experimental setups with biological preparations / Mestrado / Engenharia Biomedica / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

There is so far no consensus on how to develop a reliability model of safety-related digitalinstrumentation and control (I&C) in a probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of a nuclear powerplant. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate different approaches to model digital protectionsystems in a PSA for a nuclear power plant. This is accomplished by the development of a fault treemodel of the digital protection system for a fictive and simplified nuclear power plant, that act as areference model to be used for evaluation of different design alternatives and modelling principles.Common cause failures and spurious actuation signals are the major contributors to scenariosresulting in a core damage. A PSA model has to be sufficiently detailed in order for this to berepresented in the results. The impact on results such as core damage frequency and importance ofminimal cut sets from different fail-safe, voting logic and signal validation designs are significant,too. To further examine the differences between I&C designs and significance of different PSAmodelling solutions, the degree of realism of the example should be increased. This rapidlyintroduces complexity to the models resulting in a model that is more difficult to review and resultsthat is more difficult to interpret and even much simplified models tend to get rather complex.

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<p>Modern reactors promise enhanced capabilities not previously possible including integration with the smart grid, remote monitoring, reduced operation and maintenance costs, and more efficient operation. . Modern reactors are designed for installation to remote areas and integration to the electric smart grid, which would require the need for secure undisturbed remote control and the implementation of two-way communications and advanced digital technologies. However, two-way communications between the reactor facility, the enterprise network and the grid would require continuous operation data transmission. This would necessitate a deep understanding of cybersecurity and the development of a robust cybersecurity management plan in all reactor communication networks. Currently, there is a limited number of testbeds, mostly virtual, to perform cybersecurity research and investigate and demonstrate cybersecurity implementations in a nuclear environment. To fill this gap, the goal of this thesis is the development of a real-time cyber-physical testbed with real operational and information technology data to allow for cybersecurity research in a representative nuclear environment. In this thesis, a prototypic cyber-physical testbed was designed, built, tested, and installed in PUR-1. The cyber-physical testbed consists of an Auxiliary Moderator Displacement Rod (AMDR) that experimentally simulates a regulating rod, several sensors, and digital controllers mirroring Purdue University Reactor One (PUR-1) operation. The cyber-physical testbed is monitored and controlled remotely from the Remote Monitoring and Simulation Station (RMSS), located in another building with no line of sight to the reactor room. The design, construction and testing of the cyber-physical testbed are presented along with its capabilities and limitations. The cyber-physical testbed network architecture enables the performance of simulated cyberattacks including false data injection and denial of service. Utilizing the RMSS setup, collected information from the cyber-physical testbed is compared with real-time operational PUR-1 data in order to evaluate system response under simulated cyber events. Furthermore, a physics-based model is developed and benchmarked to simulate physical phenomena in PUR-1 reactor pool and provide information about reactor parameters that cannot be collected from reactor instrumentation system.</p>

<p dir="ltr">This project aimed to develop an instrumentation and control system for a micro-drilling robot based on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies. The automation system integrated IIoT technological tools to create a robust automation system capable of being used in drilling operations. The system incorporated industrial-grade sensors, which carried out direct measurements of the critical variables of the process. The indirect variables relevant to the control of the robot were calculated from the measured parameters. The system also considered the telemetry architecture necessary to reliably transmit data from the down-the-hole (DTH) robot to a receiver on the surface. Telemetry was based on wireless communication through long-range radio frequency (LoRa). The system developed had models based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for determining the mode of operation, detecting changes in the process, and changes in drilling variables in critical hydraulic components for the drilling process. Algorithms based on AI and ML models also allowed the user to make better decisions based on the variables' correlation to optimize the drilling process (e.g., dynamic change of flow, pressure, and RPMs based on automatic rock identification). A user interface (UI) was developed, and digital tools to perform data analysis were implemented. Safety assessment in all robot systems (e.g., electrical, hardware, software) was contemplated as a critical design component. The result of this research project provides innovative micro-drilling robots with the necessary technological tools to optimize the drilling process. The system made drilling more efficient, reliable, and safe, providing diagnostic and prognostic tools that allowed planning maintenance based on the actual health of the devices. The system that was developed was tested in a test bench under controlled conditions within a laboratory to characterize the system and collect data that allowed ML models' development, training, validation, and testing. The prototype of a micro-drilling robot installed on the test bench served as a case study to assess the implemented models' reliability and the proposed telemetry.</p>