EMBEDDED DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR GAS TURBINE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS

Abstract

Embedded microcontroller systems are emerging in various fields of industry that offer versatile connection possibilities with real world equipment. They offer powerful computational capacity; they incorporate different analog inputs to acquire proportional parameters; their analog outputs that can be used to generate time-varying signals; digital inputs and outputs can measure and control parameters having two states. These development systems also have significant literature about different communication protocols to interface them with commercial computer systems. In gas turbine development they can be used efficiently in various roles due to the wide variety of their capabilities. In the present article the authors present a possible utilization of the mbed LPC1768 prototyping system for the identification process of gas turbine engines. In order to measure the time and frequency domain characteristics of the engine the circuit has been configured in both hardware and software to accept and generate signals respected to the gas turbine. This paper the authors detail the build-up and show results of measurements conducted with the created embedded system.