Application of Data Acquisition and Telemetry System into a Solar Vehicle

Author

Taha, Z. ; Passarella, R. ; How, H.X. ; Sah, J. Md ; Ahmad, N. ; Ghazilla, R.A.R. ; Yap, H.J.

Author_Institution

Center for Product Design & Manuf. (CPDM), Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

19-21 March 2010

Firstpage

96

Lastpage

100

Abstract

The Center for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM) of University Malaya going to take part in the World Solar Challenge (WSC) 2009. It is a biannual solar powered car race over 3021 km from Darwin to Adelaide. The aim of this project is to build a system for monitoring performance of the solar vehicle during testing and race, a data acquisition and telemetry (DaqT) system is needed. In this project, a DaqT system will be developed using National Instruments´ (NI) LabVIEW, compactRIO (cRIO) and MaxStream Xstream Radio Frequency modules. The DaqT is able to measure signals from sensors which are thermocouples, current transducers, battery storage and tachometer. Experiment is conducted to investigate the capability of the DaqT system to process signals from essential sensors, transmit data with wireless communication and data logging. The results of this project from the experiment, the DaqT manage to transmit data in open space up to 700 meters and the percentages of the error is below 5%.

Keywords

data acquisition; solar powered vehicles; tachometers; telemetry; thermocouples; transducers; Adelaide; CPDM; Center for Product Design and Manufacturing; DaqT system; Darwin; LabVIEW; MaxStream Xstream Radio Frequency modules; National Instruments; University Malaya; WSC 2009; World Solar Challenge; battery storage; biannual solar powered car; cRIO; compactRIO; current transducers; data acquisition and telemetry system; data logging; performance monitoring; sensors; solar vehicle; tachometer; thermocouples; wireless communication; Current measurement; Data acquisition; Instruments; Manufacturing; Monitoring; Product design; Radio frequency; Solar powered vehicles; System testing; Telemetry; DaqT; LabView; Solar Vehicle; cRIO;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Engineering and Applications (ICCEA), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bali Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6079-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6080-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEA.2010.26

Filename

5445860