Control and data-acquisition of a heater/temperature sensor

Control and data-acquisition of a heater/temperature sensor

Rebers, Marjolein (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Breysens, G. (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

van Zeijl, Henk (mentor)
el Mansouri, Brahim (mentor)
Hoekstra, Jaap (graduation committee)
Hunyadi, Bori (graduation committee)
Montagne, Anton (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Real-time data acquisition of a heater/temperature sensor array and pressure sensors for performance evaluation of MEMS vaporizing liquid micro-thrusters in nanosatellites

2019-07-02

The goal of this bachelor thesis is to develop a control system that controls the temperature of a microthruster. This system also needs to acquire data for research. The microthruster contains a resistor that is used both as a heater and as a sensor. To facilitate the acquisition of data and the testing of the control system, a lab setup with a Keithley 2450 SourceMeter power supply was used. LabVIEW was used to control the power supply and to execute the control algorithms. The final system consists of a microcontroller that runs the control algorithms based on proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control developed in this thesis. The PID values can be adapted with use of the graphical user interface (GUI). A read-out circuit and current supply will be part of the integrated system. These circuits will be developed by other groups that are part of this bachelor project.

PID control
VLM
heater
digital control
data-acquisition

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Student theses

bachelor thesis

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