Programmable hardware architectures for sensor validation

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1339-1354

  Henry, M P ^a   Archer, N ^a   Atia, M R A ^a   Bowles, J ^a   Clarke, D W ^a   Fraher, P M A ^a   Page, I ^b   Randall, G ^b   Yang, J C Y ^a  

^a Department of Engineering Science ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dissolved oxygen sensing; Fault detection and diagnosis; Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs); Fieldbus; Handel; Hardware compilation; Labview; Occam; Sensor validation; Thermocouple; Transputers; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; CONTROL; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LOGIC GATES; PROBABILITY; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THERMOCOUPLES; TRANSPUTERS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSING; FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; FIELDBUS; HANDEL; HARDWARE COMPILATION; LABVIEW; OCCAM; SENSOR VALIDATION; UNCERTAINTY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0030257659     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0661(96)00144-X     Document Type: Article

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