SENSOR SPECIFICATION USING THE ISA AND STEP STANDARDS FOR SENSOR SELECTION |
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| Maarten Korsten, Dan Stefanescu, Paul Regtien |
- Abstract:
- In this paper, a framework is proposed for computer supported sensor selection and design. An important requirement to this is that the specifications of sensors can be matched with requirements. Therefore sensors and requirements must be specified unambiguously. It is foreseen that a software system for this will have to acquire information from suppliers automatically, in order to stay up to date. Also different parts of the software system will have to exchange information. We conclude that a standard neutral information exchange format for the specification of sensors is desired. In this paper an overview of the problem is given. STEP and PLib are introduced as standards for information exchange about products and parts respectively. However, the field of sensor specification has not been developed yet and it is proposed in this paper to do this. As an example, sensor specification within the class of strain gage transducers is worked out. First an overview of modelling options is discussed and then it is demonstrated how sensor specifications might look in the PLib format. It is concluded that the PLib standard is indeed suited for exchanging specification information about sensors.
- Keywords:
- sensor selection, measurement system design, design automation
- Download:
- PWC-2003-TC7-014.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- Event name:
- XVII IMEKO World Congress
- Title:
Metrology in the 3rd Millennium
- Place:
- Dubrovnik, CROATIA
- Time:
- 22 June 2003 - 28 June 2003