Many research and commercial environments need to measure fast time varying signals and need to control subsystems, e.g. actuators, also in real-time with high bandwidth and minimum latency. Existing commercial systems for data acquisition and control have many shortcomings and behave in a non-deterministic manner. Determinism or predictability is a key element of high performance real-time systems which must always meet specific deadlines under tight synchronizations. In this thesis, a new approach to very high-performance predictable real-time acquisition and control is proposed, theoretically analyzed, implemented in hardware, and experimentally tested. The resulting system is highly adaptable and reconfigurable, and has been applied to a number of problem areas including micro-robot control via a high performance parallel computer architecture, and cardiac electropotential mapping. Indeed, the resulting cardiac mapping system is so far as we know, the highest resolution produced to date.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.42092 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Martel, Sylvain. |
| Contributors | Hunter, Ian W. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Electrical Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001564109, proquestno: NQ30334, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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