Test-Driven Development of IEEE 1451 Transducer Services and Application

IEEE 1451 standard defines the methods of integrating smart transducers into communicating networks. Interface between a user application and a field of transducers, known as Transducer Services API is defined by standrad IEEE 1451.0. This paper presents the use of Test- Driven Design (TDD) in developing methods for accessing transducer services using Transducer Services API and developing web applications which access this services over the network. The characteristics of TDD and its benefits are presented and the way of realization for one method is shown using Java and JUnit framework to run tests

Telescope pointing based on inertial measurement unit

In this paper we study the problem of how to determine the coordinates of a point a telescope is directed to on the basis of data obtained from a 9DOF sensor board. On the 9DOF sensor board there are three sensors: the gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer. By combining the data from all the three sensors one obtains the Eulerian angles in the system tied to the sensor board. The Eulerian angles are transformed into the horizontal and equatorial coordinates in order to obtain the point the telescope is directed to. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. TR32043 for the period 2011–2016, Grant no. 176011: Dynamics and kinematics of celestial bodies and systems

The effect of temperature and frequency on magnetic properties of the Fe81B13Si4C2 amorphous alloy

In this study it was investigated influence of temperature and frequency on permeability, coercivity and power loses of Fe81B13Si4C2 amorphous alloy. Magnetic permeability measurements performed in nonisothermal and isothermal conditions was confirmed that efficient structural relaxation was occurred at temperature of 663 K. This process was performed in two steps, the first one is kinetic and the second one is diffuse. Activation energies of these processes are: Ea1 = 52.02 kJ/mol for kinetic and Ea2 = 106.9 kJ/mol for diffuse. It was shown that after annealing at 663 K coercivity decrease about 30% and therefore substantial reduction in power loses was attained. Investigated amorphous alloy satisfied the criteria for signal processing devices that work in mean frequency domain

The effect of temperature and frequency on magnetic properties of the Fe81B13Si4C2 amorphous alloy

In this study it was investigated influence of temperature and frequency on permeability, coercivity and power loses of Fe81B13Si4C2 amorphous alloy. Magnetic permeability measurements performed in nonisothermal and isothermal conditions was confirmed that efficient structural relaxation was occurred at temperature of 663 K. This process was performed in two steps, the first one is kinetic and the second one is diffuse. Activation energies of these processes are: Ea1 = 52.02 kJ/mol for kinetic and Ea2 = 106.9 kJ/mol for diffuse. It was shown that after annealing at 663 K coercivity decrease about 30% and therefore substantial reduction in power loses was attained. Investigated amorphous alloy satisfied the criteria for signal processing devices that work in mean frequency domain