ON-LINE DATA ANALYSIS WITH A HYBRID COMPUTER AND INITIAL STUDY OF A SOUNDING ROCKET HYBRID SIMULATION,

Abstract

Hybrid computer programs were developed to accept data in analog form and simultaneously to perform selected analysis and reduction procedures in real time, the results appearing as continuous analog outputs. Analog circuits with parallel logic removed interference spikes from the original data, generated a coarsely-quantized power density spectrum, and formed a continuous record of the correlation coefficient of two signals. Hybrid programs calculated, and repetitively outputed in analog form, the amplitude probability density and the auto- or crosscorrelation functions; a rapid-display program continuously outputed the peak value of the crosscorrelation and the time at which the peak occurred. Initial data conditioning and final display utilized analog circuits, but the calculation was performed on a digital computer linked by a-d and d-a converters and control circuits. An initial study of hybrid techniques for simulating the flight of sounding rockets and reconstructing aspect data was performed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 07, 1969
Accession Number
AD0706126

Entities

People

  • Donald C. Eteson
  • Owen W. Kennedy Jr.
  • Romeo L. Moruzzi

Organizations

  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Simulators
  • Data Analysis
  • Digital Computers
  • Hybrid Computers
  • Hybrid Simulations
  • Peak Values
  • Rockets
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Sounding Rockets

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.