International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 22-25, 1984 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / The processing power afforded by embedded microcomputers in state-of-the-art control
applications offers the design engineer greatly expanded opportunities for improved
ergonomic design, even without the use of “soft” actuator and/or display devices (which
are sometimes undesirable and/or unacceptable). Especially important is the exploitation of
software to simplify the hardware design while simultaneously implementing
decision/mode logic that would be prohibitively expensive if done in hardware alone. The
designer is often confronted with an ocean of possibilisties, and must make intelligent
decisions in order to satisfy increasingly demanding applications and sophisticated users.
The design decisions and resulting features and behaviors of an automatic antenna control
unit are discussed from the operators point of view (black box), but also with the intention
to detail some of the logic necessary to implement these features. This is prefaced by a
discussion of the characteristics of the primary operator interface, the front panel, and the
factors that influenced its design. Areas for future improvement of the design are also
mentioned.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/610938 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | DeBrunner, Keith E. |
| Contributors | Dyn-Opus, Inc. |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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