B2.1 - Automating Data Conversion
- Event
- ETTC 2024 - European Test and Telemetry Conference
2024-06-11 - 2024-06-13
Nuremberg - Chapter
- Data Management Applications
- Author(s)
- F. Hacıömeroğlu, R. Uzun, M. Kekeç, A. T. Kaymak - Turkish Aerospace, Ankara (Turkey)
- Pages
- 175 - 180
- DOI
- 10.5162/ETTC2024/B2.1
- ISBN
- 978-3-910600-02-7
- Price
- free
Abstract
Data Acquisition Units provide raw data which needs to undergo a data conversion process, named as either “Engineering-Unit Conversion” for sensor parameters or “Avionic Data Decoding” for avionic parameters. Albeit trivial, this step is crucial, since a simple typo suffices to jeopardize all of the instrumentation efforts. Considering the enormity of the instrumentation, the increased frequency of flights accompanied with changes in sensor and avionic configurations, need for helper tools emerged, to prevent us from relying solely on the attention of the Instrumentation Engineers. In this paper, which is in the same spectrum as the works submitted in the two previous conferences, we present some of the developed utility tools. First one is a tool to generate conversion formulas of all sensor parameters (from Parameter List file and instrumentation definition file (xidml file)) as well as to perform some sanity checks of the Parameter List aiming to minimize human errors. Besides, another tool to compare formulas is presented. This second tool is valuable because it enables to compare formula sets residing in different locations (i.e. hangar computer, lab computer and telemetry room), and to ensure the equivalency of the formulas.