Development of the automation and control of a microgravity experiment by means of LabVIEW
This master thesis is part of an experimental project carried out at the Space Exploration Laboratory of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, by a five master¿s students team, under the guidance of Ricard Gonzalez Cinca, to study the use of acoustic waves, for heat transfer enhancement, in a ga...
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| Formato: | tesis de maestría |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/382624 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/382624 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Reduced gravity environments LabVIEW Control Software Microgravity experiment Single-phase Gas medium Acoustics. Ambients de microgravetat Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Aeronàutica i espai |
| Resumo: | This master thesis is part of an experimental project carried out at the Space Exploration Laboratory of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, by a five master¿s students team, under the guidance of Ricard Gonzalez Cinca, to study the use of acoustic waves, for heat transfer enhancement, in a gas medium and with the innovation of been done under microgravity conditions, which have never been done before. The objective of the experiment is to obtain new knowledge in this field, which might help Scientifics develop a new version of a thermal control system. The students had the opportunity to experiment under microgravity conditions, by being selected for the Drop Your Thesis Programme, provided by ESA academy, allowing the students to develop the experiment at the Space Exploration Laboratory and test it in the ZARM drop tower. The experiment was divided into different subsystems: mechanical, software, electronics, mathematical simulations and testing. Each subsystem was developed by one of the masters students. This master thesis is focused on the software part of the experiment, designed using LabVIEW from National Instruments. This document is divided into three main parts, starting with the introduction to the experiment, which explains the experiment background information, as well as the Your Thesis Programme, then it continues with the introduction of the experiment software platform, LabVIEW. The thesis finalises with an explanation of the experiment control software developed. |
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