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Títol: Development of the automation and control of a microgravity experiment by means of LabVIEW

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: GONZÁLEZ CINCA, RICARD

Departament: FIS

Títol: Development of the automation and control of a microgravity experiment by means of LabVIEW

Data inici oferta: 12-07-2022     Data finalització oferta: 12-03-2023


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    MU AEROSPACE S&T 21
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
LabVIEW, Control Software, Microgravity experiment, single-phase, gas medium, Acoustics.
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
A Labview software will be developed for the control and the data
acquisition in an experiment to be carried out in a microgravity
platform.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
This master¿s 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 master¿s 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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