VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT FOR SENSORS AND ACTUATORS FUNCTIONING MONITORING IMPROVING

Abstract

In the paper there is presented a method to improve some mechatronic systems performances testing, by developing and implementation of a flexible software interface, as virtual instrument for monitoring the testing results. This software proved to be very useful and user friendly, being designed to test ten types of sensors and actuators. Until present were tested five from the list of ten systems, getting conclusive and pertinent information on the tested systems performances. Based on these it was possible to establish very efficiently and proper which kind of sensors does correspond, must to be calibrated or should to be replaced. The big challenge in our research is to acquire and develop also necessary hardware interfaces, to improve the assisted systems performances monitoring, by auto data transferring from sensors/actuators to the computing systems. It will be considered also the software interface extension in order to enlarge the list of tested mechatronic systems.