Development of Automatic Control System and Data Acquisition System for an Environmental Chamber

Abstract

The objectives of this project were to design, fabricate, and install automatic control and data acquisition systems on an environmental chamber. The control system maintains the chamber pressure to within 1 mmHg, temperature to within 1 F, and humidity to within 3% relative humidity, using a modern distributed process control system. The data acquisition system records data, using a minicomputer that is compatible with existing DEC equipment. This report contains information from the final system specification and configuration item development specification for each system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA238299

Entities

People

  • Evelyn J. Bunton
  • James C. Wright
  • Richard Blom

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Central Processing Units
  • Circuit Boards
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Operating Systems
  • Personal Computers
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Materials Science
  • Software Engineering