A distributed data acquisition system with smart connector plugs powered by the Ethernet cable

Author

Zhang, Yishan ; Li, Jian ; Yang, Huiyu

Author_Institution

Aircraft Struct. Test Lab., Beijing Aeronaut. Technol. Res. Center, Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

15-18 June 2012

Firstpage

813

Lastpage

816

Abstract

A distributed multichannel data acquisition system based on the IEEE802.3af protocol has been developed to address the need and trend of the data acquisition of the full scale static or fatigue test of the aircraft. The system is powered by the Ethernet network cable, the sensor cable of the system has a smart connector plug which allows the system to identify the sensor cable. The amount of the power cable and the connecting work of sensor cable in the test field can be reduced obviously. This distributed data acquisition system has been used in the full scale static and fatigue test of some sorts of aircraft successfully, the results show that the reliability of distributed data acquisition system has been improved a lot.

Keywords

aircraft power systems; aircraft testing; avionics; data acquisition; electric connectors; fatigue testing; local area networks; power cables; protocols; reliability; sensors; Ethernet network cable; IEEE 802.3af protocol; aircraft fatigue test; distributed multichannel data acquisition system; full scale aircraft static test; power cable; sensor cable identification; smart connector plugs; Aircraft; Communication cables; Data acquisition; Plugs; Power cables; Workstations; IEEE802.3af; data acquisition; distributed; smart connector plug;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (ICQR2MSE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0786-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICQR2MSE.2012.6246352

Filename

6246352