P16315: SPX data acquisition

Integrated System Build & Test with Customer Demo

Table of Contents

1 Team Vision for System Level Demo with Customer
2 Test Results Summary
- 2.1 Test Plans Covered
- 2.2 Test Results
3 Telemetry System Test Plan
4 Validation Testing - Adam
5 Waterproof Testing - John
6 Operation Manual
7 Installation Manual
8 Telemetry Software
- 8.1 Telemetry Software Status
- 8.2 Software Screenshots
9 Lab Assembly Plan and Status
10 Bill of Materials
- 10.1 Budget Summary
- 10.2 Remaining Expenditures
11 Risk and Problem Tracking
12 MSDII Project Plan
13 Imagine RIT
14 Final Paper and Poster
15 3 Week Plans for Next Phase

Team Vision for System Level Demo with Customer

During this phase, our team wanted to fix some of the glitches with our system found in previous phases, and demonstrate a completely working prototype to our customer.

Our team managed to figure out the waterproofing problems with the gauges, and we are now able to read strain measurements off of all four channels, meaning strain from each blade.

Test Results Summary

Test Plans Covered

Telemetry System Test Plan: Tom, Specs Covered: 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14
Validation Testing
Waterproof Testing

Test Results

Telemetry System Test Plan

Specification 3 Waterproofed Connections
- Waterproofed connections was met with all connections having a higher than 6Mohm resistance so the multimeter could not even read a value.
Specification 5 Frequency Range
- Frequency range was met with the product conformance documents confirming the system using the 2.45GHz Carrier Frequency Range
Specification 6 Battery Life
- Battery Life Results Document
- For battery life the specification was marginal 8 hours and ideal 12 hours until 128Hz sampling rate for 4 Channels. Using ~565Hz/channel Battery life was 8.665 Hours. From this power to run the device besides sampling was derived and used to extrapolate that at 128Hz battery life would be 11.07Hours. This was done with full power data transmission/.
- This specification meets the marginal value but also shows we can meet the marginal value while gathering much more data than minimally required.
Specification 7 Wireless Transmission Range
- Transmission Range Results Document
- Transmission Range Specification of the telemetry system had a marginal value of 10 meters and ideal of 100m. During initial tests under low tranmsission power an average range of 21.67m was achieved. Under full power transmission range an average range of 71.67m line of sight was achieved. Even under non line of sight tests the 10m value was met.
- The transmission range specification was met under all conditions from non line of sight low power to line of sight high power transmission range.
Specification 8 Telemetry System Sampling Rate
- Sampling Rate Results Document
- Specification 8 was to test for how fast the system could sample each of 4 differential data channels at once. The Marginal value was 100Hz with 150Hz ideal. The device could sample at 128Hz using 12.51% of it's network bandwidth and 256Hz/channel using 25.02%, however at 512Hz a channel it would need 100.10% and received an error. This was in one type of sampling mode, in the continuous streaming mode sampling is done as fast as possible and was done at ~565Hz/channel. This shows we can well meet the ideal specification of 150Hz.
- This specification was well met at ~4 times the ideal rate. The continuous streaming mode that achieves this by not logging transmission power levels (in dB) like the synchronized sampling mode. This information is not needed for our testing.
Specification 14 CSV File Size
- The point of this specification is two parts: To confirm data is saved as a CSV, and to see if the file size for a 5Mb for a 20 minute test at 128Hz.
- File Size Results Document
- Initial Testing of this was done using the continuous streaming mode at ~565Hz per channel. In this mode all tests were saves as a CSV file meeting that portion of the specification. But, the file size was 13.72Mb average not meeting that portion of the specification.
- The size is less important because it is not stored internally on the device but on the computer, this is an item that cannot be changed without lowering the sample rate which is the more important part of the specification so it will left as is. The file size for continuous was about 45Mb.

Validation Testing - Adam

Validation Testing Data and Plots

Waterproof Testing - John

Operation Manual

Telemetry System
- Lord Microstrain Node Commander User Manual
- Lord Microstrain V-Link-LXRS User Manual

Installation Manual

The first link is a web browser viewable pdf of the wiring procedure, the second is the WORD file version with the wiring schematics and wiretables embedded in it as PDF's for reference.

Case - John

Telemetry Software

Telemetry Software Status

The software was made and provided to us by Lord Microstrain as part of the Telemetry System we Purchased. At this point the software has been used to gather strain data and for testing and is working well. Also, all team members have been taught how to use it.
The code for this software was not written by our team, it came supplied with our telemetry system and can be downloaded by anyone.
The software is Node Commander and is available here http://www.microstrain.com/software#desktop