Title :
Development of a microcontrolled data acquisition system to optimize INPE´s data collecting station, via satellite
Author :
Brandao, Claudio De Oliveira ; Fialho, Sergio Vianna ; Nicolau, José Albevto
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Space Res., Natal, Brazil
Abstract :
The data collecting stations which integrate the data collecting system of the Brazilian Complete Space Mission needed to be improved in order to provide better quality data to their end users, and also simpler procedures for their installation, testing and maintenance. For this purpose a microcontrolled data acquisition system was developed to substitute part of the old stations, with very good results. The new station is based on 87C550-microcontroller and used AvCASE as the development environment for generating its control program. The implemented system presents greater flexibility, robustness and reliability and will gradually substitute the installed stations
Keywords :
data acquisition; microcontrollers; remote sensing; satellite ground stations; 87C550-microcontroller; AvCASE; Brazilian Complete Space Mission; INPE; data collecting station; data collecting system; development environment; microcontrolled data acquisition system; reliability; robustness; Communication system control; Control systems; Data acquisition; Satellite ground stations; Space missions; Space stations; Space technology; System testing; Temperature sensors; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1999. Proceedings of ICECS '99. The 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pafos
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5682-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.1999.812241
