The study in this report mainly focuses on the Internet-based Monitoring and Controlling of a Real-Time Dynamic System interfaced via a dedicated local computer. The main philosophy behind this study is to allow the remote user to conduct an Internet-based Remote Operation (I-bRO) for the dynamic system. The dynamic system has been defined as the system which has its parts interrelated in such a way that a change in one part necessarily affects other parts of the system [I]. In order to achieve this goal, the study has been conducted in a form of an on-line and real-time Virtual Laboratory (VL). Through this form of laboratory, a user can carry out the experiment, perform real-time monitoring and controlling operations of the experiment and collect real and live data from the experiment through the network link as the user was physically in the laboratory. The dynamic system that has been selected for the test-rig of this study is a 3-phase Induction Motor (IM) which is mechanically coupled with a DC-Dynamometer that acts as a variable load to the IM. This system is a common laboratory experiment in the study of the Electrical Engineering for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The study covers both sides of the I-bRO; the hardware and the software. The hardware side includes the design and the development of a load control box that has been used to interface the DC-Dynamometer and consequently control it from the local computer. The software side covers the design and the development of the Virtual Instrumentation System (VIS) that has replaced successfully the physical Measurement and Test (M&T) instruments of the test-rig. Beside that, the software side includes the development of the internet remote front panel for the remote operation. / Furthermore, the software side includes the development of the software that has been used to analyse the system during the I-bRO. In this study, the LabVTEW7 program has been used to design and develop the VIS and the Matlab program has bee used to aualyse the system performance for the remote operations. This study also addresses the issues and problems related to the intranet or the internet to be used as the network for data communication between the test-rig and remote users. This study has been carried out in different stages as follows: 1. Designing and development of the VIS. 2. Interfacing the test-rig apparatus with a local computer. 3. Upload the system from the local computer to the network. 4. Study the performance of the system on the network for the purpose of the remote operations controlled over the internet. The developed system of this study has been used for data acquisition, network communications, instruments monitoring and controlling applications. A user can execute on-line and in the real-time the developed VIS from any point in the university. Due to the fact that the university network is directly integrated to the main internet server. a remote user through the main internet server is able to perform I-bRO of the selected dynamic system. There are many factors associated with the network, the internet or the intranet, and have direct influences on the control system performance throughout the remote operations. The most dominant factors are the random time-delays and the data losses. / These factors among others have to be addressed for a proper application of the I-bRO. For this reason, different cases and scenarios of the I-bRO have been investigated and simulated to study the affection of the network on the control system performance. The system is analysed under two control cases, closed loop with random time-delays and open loop when the internet server is disconnected and no communication between the input and the output of the system. In the first case, the closed loop, the internet server is assumed to be closed and subjected to random time-delays. In the second case, the internet server is subjected to random cut-off and thus opens the control loop. The results of both cases have been analysed and discussed. It has been found that, if the control system without the time-delays is stable, it remains stable even with small time-delays up to twenty seconds. This result is different from what has been shown in the literature.

An event-driven, sequential, process control system was designed for International Isotopes, Inc., to automate and remotely control a target station at the company's linear accelerator facility. The designed system consisted of two major sections: a software program (virtual instrument), which was developed by LabVIEW, and a hardware interface (FieldPoint Modular Distributed I/O System by National Instrument), which had to be a pre-developed system that did not require customization. The designed virtual instrument was tested on a simulation model that mimed the target station. The result was a valid design.

Esta dissertação apresenta uma proposta para trabalhar, na escola, com a argumentação dedutiva em geometria. A proposta faz uso de material digital consistindo de instrumentos virtuais de desenho que realizam as transformações geométricas de translação, reflexão, rotação e ampliação. Fazendo uso do material digital, elaboramos uma seqüência didática composta por três etapas – atividades de exploração, construção e argumentação, e uma experiência foi realizada em turma de Ensino Médio. Na analise do processo de aprendizagem dos alunos utilizamos a teoria de Van Hiele sobre níveis de pensamento geométrico e a teoria de Duval sobre registros de representações semióticas. No laboratório de informática, inicialmente os alunos sujeitos da experiência foram instigados a explorar os instrumentos virtuais, expressando seu entendimento em registro discursivo; construíram o instrumento virtual a partir do protocolo de construção, aqui transitando entre registros discursivo e geométrico; e finalmente trabalharam na argumentação que explica as transformações realizadas pelos instrumentos. Os resultados obtidos mostram que o uso dos instrumentos virtuais de desenho contribuiu para que os alunos entendessem, no contexto da geometria, o propósito de um raciocínio dedutivo. / This dissertation presents a proposal to work, at school, the deductive reasoning in geometry. The proposal makes use of digital material consisting of virtual drawing tools that perform geometric transformations of translation, reflection, rotation and enlargement. Making use of digital material, it was developed a didactic sequence consists of three stages - exploration, construction and argumentation, and an experiment was performed in a high school class. In the analysis of the learning process of the students it was used the theory of Van Hiele related to levels of geometric thought and the theory of Duval related to registers of semiotic representations. In the computer lab, initially the students were encouraged to explore the virtual instruments, expressing their understanding in a discursive register; they made the geometric construction of the instruments, making use of discursive and geometric registers; finally they worked on the argument that explains the transformations performed by the instruments. The results show that the use of virtual instruments helped students to understand, in the geometric context, the purpose of a deductive reasoning.

Esta dissertação apresenta uma proposta para trabalhar, na escola, com a argumentação dedutiva em geometria. A proposta faz uso de material digital consistindo de instrumentos virtuais de desenho que realizam as transformações geométricas de translação, reflexão, rotação e ampliação. Fazendo uso do material digital, elaboramos uma seqüência didática composta por três etapas – atividades de exploração, construção e argumentação, e uma experiência foi realizada em turma de Ensino Médio. Na analise do processo de aprendizagem dos alunos utilizamos a teoria de Van Hiele sobre níveis de pensamento geométrico e a teoria de Duval sobre registros de representações semióticas. No laboratório de informática, inicialmente os alunos sujeitos da experiência foram instigados a explorar os instrumentos virtuais, expressando seu entendimento em registro discursivo; construíram o instrumento virtual a partir do protocolo de construção, aqui transitando entre registros discursivo e geométrico; e finalmente trabalharam na argumentação que explica as transformações realizadas pelos instrumentos. Os resultados obtidos mostram que o uso dos instrumentos virtuais de desenho contribuiu para que os alunos entendessem, no contexto da geometria, o propósito de um raciocínio dedutivo. / This dissertation presents a proposal to work, at school, the deductive reasoning in geometry. The proposal makes use of digital material consisting of virtual drawing tools that perform geometric transformations of translation, reflection, rotation and enlargement. Making use of digital material, it was developed a didactic sequence consists of three stages - exploration, construction and argumentation, and an experiment was performed in a high school class. In the analysis of the learning process of the students it was used the theory of Van Hiele related to levels of geometric thought and the theory of Duval related to registers of semiotic representations. In the computer lab, initially the students were encouraged to explore the virtual instruments, expressing their understanding in a discursive register; they made the geometric construction of the instruments, making use of discursive and geometric registers; finally they worked on the argument that explains the transformations performed by the instruments. The results show that the use of virtual instruments helped students to understand, in the geometric context, the purpose of a deductive reasoning.

Esta dissertação apresenta uma proposta para trabalhar, na escola, com a argumentação dedutiva em geometria. A proposta faz uso de material digital consistindo de instrumentos virtuais de desenho que realizam as transformações geométricas de translação, reflexão, rotação e ampliação. Fazendo uso do material digital, elaboramos uma seqüência didática composta por três etapas – atividades de exploração, construção e argumentação, e uma experiência foi realizada em turma de Ensino Médio. Na analise do processo de aprendizagem dos alunos utilizamos a teoria de Van Hiele sobre níveis de pensamento geométrico e a teoria de Duval sobre registros de representações semióticas. No laboratório de informática, inicialmente os alunos sujeitos da experiência foram instigados a explorar os instrumentos virtuais, expressando seu entendimento em registro discursivo; construíram o instrumento virtual a partir do protocolo de construção, aqui transitando entre registros discursivo e geométrico; e finalmente trabalharam na argumentação que explica as transformações realizadas pelos instrumentos. Os resultados obtidos mostram que o uso dos instrumentos virtuais de desenho contribuiu para que os alunos entendessem, no contexto da geometria, o propósito de um raciocínio dedutivo. / This dissertation presents a proposal to work, at school, the deductive reasoning in geometry. The proposal makes use of digital material consisting of virtual drawing tools that perform geometric transformations of translation, reflection, rotation and enlargement. Making use of digital material, it was developed a didactic sequence consists of three stages - exploration, construction and argumentation, and an experiment was performed in a high school class. In the analysis of the learning process of the students it was used the theory of Van Hiele related to levels of geometric thought and the theory of Duval related to registers of semiotic representations. In the computer lab, initially the students were encouraged to explore the virtual instruments, expressing their understanding in a discursive register; they made the geometric construction of the instruments, making use of discursive and geometric registers; finally they worked on the argument that explains the transformations performed by the instruments. The results show that the use of virtual instruments helped students to understand, in the geometric context, the purpose of a deductive reasoning.

This work considers the synthesis of brass instrument sounds using time-domain numerical methods. The operation of such a brass instrument is as follows. The player's lips are set into motion by forcing air through them, which in turn creates a pressure disturbance in the instrument mouthpiece. These disturbances produce waves that propagate along the air column, here described using one spatial dimension, to set up a series of resonances that interact with the vibrating lips of the player. Accurate description of these resonances requires the inclusion of attenuation of the wave during propagation, due to the boundary layer effects in the tube, along with how sound radiates from the instrument. A musically interesting instrument must also be flexible in the control of the available resonances, achieved, for example, by the manipulation of valves in trumpet-like instruments. These features are incorporated into a synthesis framework that allows the user to design and play a virtual instrument. This is all achieved using the finite-difference time-domain method. Robustness of simulations is vital, so a global energy measure is employed, where possible, to ensure numerical stability of the algorithms. A new passive model of viscothermal losses is proposed using tools from electrical network theory. An embedded system is also presented that couples a one-dimensional tube to the three-dimensional wave equation to model sound radiation. Additional control of the instrument using a simple lip model as well a time varying valve model to modify the instrument resonances is presented and the range of the virtual instrument is explored. Looking towards extensions of this tool, three nonlinear propagation models are compared, and differences related to distortion and response to changing bore profiles are highlighted. A preliminary experimental investigation into the effects of partially open valve configurations is also performed.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-12T17:38:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ILTON ANCELMO PEREIRA JUNIOR.pdf: 6854626 bytes, checksum: 8fdf9667f4e840b4dc298f1e9605bf2d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This master thesis introduces a study about the influence of frequency variation induced in the magnetic properties of materials. Experiments are accomplished in the Epstein frame or Epstein square, the measurements are being acquired through a data acquisition system PC-based, which is handled through a software developed in LabVIEW. As results, we have the magnetization curve, hysteresis loop and specific losses for several preset frequencies, and the harmonic distortion evaluation in current and voltage signals during the trial. The end of the essay presents a methodology able to accomplish the harmonics cancellation generated by the steel saturation, applying a voltage source having adjustable harmonic voltages. / Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo sobre a influência da variação da frequência nas propriedades magnéticas dos materiais. Os ensaios são realizados em quadro de Epstein, sendo as medições obtidas através de um sistema de aquisição de dados baseado em PC, o qual é controlado por um software desenvolvido em LabVIEW. Como resultados têm-se a curva de magnetização, a curva de histerese e as perdas específicas para diversas frequências pré-selecionadas, sendo avaliadas as distorções harmônicas de tensão e de corrente, durante os ensaios. Ao final é apresentada uma metodologia capaz de realizar o cancelamento das harmônicas geradas pela saturação do aço, através de uma fonte de tensão com ajuste de harmônicos.

Baigiamajame darbe suprojektuotas ir ištirtas programuojamas aukštosios įtampos maitinimo šaltinis. Įvade išnagrinėti programuojami aukštosios įtampos maitinimo šaltiniai, jų taikymo ir panaudojimo sritys. Taip pat išnagrinėti GPIB sąsajos privalumai ir trūkumai. Analitinėje dalyje smulkiai nagrinėjama maitinimo šaltinių sandara ir veikimo principas. Pateikiamos kai kurių maitinimo šaltinio sandaros elementų grandinių schemos. Taip pat analitinėje dalyje smulkiai išnagrinėtas GPIB sąsajos veikimo principas ir šios sąsajos taikymo galimybės. Projektinėje dalyje ištirtas aukštosios įtampos maitinimo šaltinis ir jo charakteristikos, pateikta išėjimo signalo įtampos forma. Taip pat šioje dalyje suprojektuota GPIB sąsaja maitinimo šaltiniui ir pateiktas programinės įrangos algoritmas. Darbą sudaro 6 dalys: įvadas, analitinė dalis, projektinė dalis, išvados ir pasiūlymai, literatūros sąrašas. Darbo apimtis: 57 p. teksto be priedų, 56 pav., 4 lent., 32 bibliografiniai šaltiniai. / In this final project we made research of high voltage programmable power supply. In the preface of this project the high voltage power supplies, there application and using areas are described. Also in this part of the work we describe GPIB interface advantages and disadvantages. In the analytic part we analyze power supply structure and working principles in detail. We give some power supplies structure elements schemes. Also in this part of work we analyze GPIB interface working principle and applying possibilities in detail. In the design part of the work we made a research of high voltage power supply, its characteristics and we give outgoing signal form in pictures. Also in this part we design GPIB interface for high voltage power supply and algorithm of software. Structure: introduction, analytical part, design part, conclusions and suggestions, references.

Las exigentes tolerancias de alineación en los componentes de los futuros colisionadores lineales de partículas requieren el desarrollo de nuevas técnicas de alineación más precisas que las existentes. Este es el caso del Colisionador Lineal Compacto (Compact Linear Collider, CLIC), cuyos objetivos altamente restrictivos de alineamiento alcanzan los 10 um. Para poder lograr el máximo rendimiento del acelerador, es necesario que el posicionamiento de las estructuras que aceleran las partículas y de los campos que las guían cumplan las tolerancias de alineación para dirigir el haz a lo largo de la trayectoria diseñada. Dicho procedimiento consiste en relacionar la posición de los ejes de referencia de cada componente con respecto a objetos externos, o fiduciales, lo cual resulta muy tedioso y económicamente costoso. Los errores sistemáticos y aleatorios se van acumulando en cada paso del proceso y, en consecuencia, la precisión final de alineamiento es todo un desafío. En este contexto, nace el proyecto PACMAN (Particle Accelerator Components Metrology and Alignment to the Nanometre scale), subvencionado por la Unión Europea en el programa FP7 de financiación para la investigación e innovación. El objetivo principal de PACMAN es investigar, desarrollar e implementar una solución integrada alternativa que incorpore todos los pasos de alineación en una misma ubicación, con el objetivo de mejorar la precisión de alineación de los componentes de los aceleradores, en concreto: las estructuras aceleradoras, los cuadrupolos y los monitores de posición de haz. La viabilidad de las soluciones desarrolladas y la precisión de alineamiento alcanzada deben de demostrarse en un banco de pruebas utilizando componentes de CLIC. La estrategia de PACMAN para alcanzar el objetivo técnico se divide en tres pasos. El primero consiste en la fiducialización de los componentes y sus soportes. El segundo paso es el ensamblaje de los componentes en dos tipos de soporte, uno compuesto por un monitor de posición de haz y un cuadrupolo, y otro con cuatro estructuras aceleradoras, tomando como referencia su centro electromagnético. Finalmente, ambos soportes se transportan al túnel para su alineación final utilizando técnicas de hilos tensados. En esta tesis doctoral, se describe el desarrollo de una nueva técnica no destructiva para localizar los ejes electromagnéticos de estructuras aceleradoras y su validación experimental. Para ello, se ha utilizado una estructura aceleradora de CLIC conocida como TD24. Debido a la complejidad mecánica de la TD24, su difícil acceso y su diámetro medio de iris de 5.5 mm, se desarrolla una nueva técnica denominada en esta tesis como 'el método perturbativo' y se realiza una propuesta experimental de validación. El estudio de viabilidad de este método, cumpliendo con los requisitos impuestos de precisión en la medida de 10 um, ha sido realizado con una campaña extensa de simulaciones de campos electromagnéticos en tres dimensiones utilizando la herramienta de software conocida como HFSS. Los resultados de simulación han permitido el desarrollo de un algoritmo muy completo de medidas y han proporcionado las especificaciones técnicas para el diseño conceptual de un banco de pruebas para la medida de los ejes electromagnéticos de la TD24. El preciso ensamblaje del banco de pruebas y sus correspondientes calibraciones, la incorporación de nuevos tratamientos de las medidas en el algoritmo final y la caracterización de fuentes de error en la medida, favorecieron la localización del centro electromagnético en la TD24 con una precisión menor a 1 um con un error estimado menor que 8.5 um, cumplimiendo con los objetivos de precisión establecidos. / In the next generation of linear particle accelerators, challenging alignment tolerances are required in the positioning of the components focusing, accelerating and detecting the beam over the accelerator length in order to achieve the maximum machine performance. In the case of the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), accelerating structures, beam position monitors and quadrupole magnets need to be aligned in their support with respect to their reference axes with an accuracy of 10 um. To reach such objective, the PACMAN (Particle Accelerator Components Metrology and Alignment to the Nanometer Scale) project strives for the improvement of the current alignment accuracy by developing new methods and tools, whose feasibility should be validated using the major CLIC components. This Ph.D. thesis concerns the investigation, development and implementation of a new non-destructive intracavity technique, referenced here as 'the perturbative method', to determine the electromagnetic axes of accelerating structures by means of a stretched wire, acting as a reference of alignment. Of particular importance is the experimental validation of the method through the 5.5 mm iris-mean aperture CLIC prototype known as TD24, with complex mechanical features and difficult accessibility, in a dedicated test bench. In the first chapter of this thesis, the alignment techniques in particle accelerators and the novel proposals to be implemented in the future linear colliders are introduced, and a detailed description of the PACMAN project is provided. The feasibility study of the method, carried out with extensive electromagnetic fields simulations, is described in chapter 2, giving as a result, the knowledge of the theoretical accuracy expected in the measurement of the electromagnetic axes and facilitating the development of a measurement algorithm. The conceptual design, manufacturing and calibration of the automated experimental set-up, integrating the solution developed to measure the electromagnetic axes of the TD24, are covered in chapter 3. The future lines of research and developments of the perturbative method are also explored. In chapter 4, the most significant results obtained from an extensive experimental work are presented, analysed and compared with simulations. The proof-of-principle is completed, the measurement algorithm is optimised and the electromagnetic centre is measured in the TD24 with a precision less than 1 um and an estimated error less than 8.5 um. Finally, in chapter 5, the developments undertaken along this research work are summarised, the innovative achievements accomplished within the PACMAN project are listed and its impact is analysed. / En la generació pròxima d'acceleradors de partícules lineals, desafiant toleràncies d'alineament és requerit en el posicionament dels components que enfoquen, accelerant i detectant la biga sobre la longitud d'accelerador per tal d'aconseguir l'actuació de màquina màxima. En el cas del Colisionador Compacte Lineal (CLIC), accelerant estructures, monitors de posició de fes i imants necessiten ser alineats en el seu suport amb respectar a les seves destrals de referència amb una precisió de 10 um. Per assolir tal objectiu, el PACMAN (Metrologia de Components de l'Accelerador de partícules i Alineament al Nanometer Escala) projecte s'esforça per la millora de l'actual precisió d'alineament per mètodes nous en desenvolupament i eines, la viabilitat dels quals hauria de ser validada utilitzant els components de CLIC importants. Aquesta tesi concerneix la investigació, desenvolupament i implementació d'un nou no-destructiu tècnica interna, va referenciar ací mentre 'el mètode de pertorbació' per determinar les destrals electromagnètiques d'accelerar estructures mitjançant un cable estès, actuant com a referència d'alineament. De la importància particular és la validació experimental del mètode a través del 5.5 mm iris-roí obertura prototipus de CLIC sabut com TD24, amb característiques mecàniques complexes i accessibilitat difícil, en un banc de prova dedicat. En el primer capítol d'aquesta tesi, les tècniques d'alineament en acceleradors de partícules i les propostes novelles per ser implementades en el futur colisionador lineal és introduït, i una descripció detallada del projecte PACMAN és proporcionat. L'estudi de viabilitat el mètode de pertorbació, va dur a terme amb simulacres de camps electromagnètics extensos, és descrit dins capitol 2, donant com a resultat, el coneixement de la precisió teòrica esperada en la mida de les destrals electromagnètiques i facilitant el desenvolupament d'un algoritme de mida. El disseny conceptual, fabricació i calibratge del conjunt experimental automatitzat-amunt, integrant la solució desenvolupada per mesurar les destrals electromagnètiques del TD24, és cobert dins capitol 3. Les línies futures de recerca i desenvolupaments del mètode és també va explorar. Dins capitol 4, la majoria de resultats significatius van obtenir d'una faena experimental extensa és presentada, analitzat i comparat amb simulacres. La prova-de-el principi és completat, l'algoritme de mida és optimitzat i el centre electromagnètic és mesurat en el TD24 amb una precisió menys d'1 um i un error calculat menys de 8.5 um. Finalment, dins capitol 5, els desenvolupaments empresos al llarg d'aquesta faena de recerca és resumit, les consecucions innovadores van acomplir dins del projecte PACMAN és llistat i el seu impacte és analitzat. / Galindo Muñoz, N. (2018). Development of direct measurement techniques for the in-situ internal alignment of accelerating structures [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/100488 / TESIS