WIND STUDIO.ARCHITECTURE

The system is PC based, offering high performance at an affordable cost.

If desired, a customer can specify rugged industrial PCs with dual hot-swap power supplies and fans (for high availability) and hard disk arrays (for high data integrity).

Alternatively, the use of standard desktop PCs can offer the very latest technology, a more flexible upgrade path and more economical spares holding.

The wind tunnel operator interface is via multiple monitors, providing enough screen area to show the main operating controls and displays as well as pages for individual sub-system monitoring and manual control and diagnostic displays.

All communications with the PCs are via standard built-in interfaces, so no extra cards normally need to be plugged in. This makes swapping over to a warm-standby PC very straightforward. The timing line that synchronizes sub-system data logging is supported via a modular Ethernet Input/Output system.

Wind Studio is a pre-configured KineticaRT Studio application running on Windows NT or XP. KineticaRT Studio is fully user configurable and component based and the Windows user interface will be familiar to all users.

	Configurable pages for control and monitoring, including display of live data from sub-system sensors
	Integrated control of main and boundary layer fans, rolling road and model motion system
	Data acquisition from main, wing and wheel balances as well as from tunnel sensors
	Fully automatic run execution: Fan speed control - wind speed, Reynolds number, differential pressure Rolling road control - speed and yaw Model positioning - ride height, roll and yaw as well as wheel steering and positioning Auxiliaries - exhausts, flaps, accelerometers, ride height sensors Integrated control of pressure scanners Pre and post zeros Synchronized data logging
	Results processing, storage and viewing: Mean and, when required, raw results (for transient analysis) Wind and body axis, coefficients and full scale forces; intermediate results Fully user configurable - results can be split into separate files Post-step summary results display - with color coded comparisons with previous and "reference" runs Post-run adjustment for final zeros Configurable Windows Explorer based results viewer XML file format - for open transfer to existing post-processing software and third party analysis packages
	Easy to use setup editors: Model geometry editor with car plan and elevation - reducing chance of wrong data entry Ride map editor with safety check display - inhibits unsafe run Data requirement editor - defines what is logged, and logging rate and period Results editor - defines results processing and storage

KineticaRT Studio is a rapid application development tool for the creation of display and control systems for Windows NT and XP. KineticaRT Studio includes the following:

	KineticaRT Studio Control components - for the creation of user interface pages
	KineticaRT Logic components - for processing live data and configuring event driven, timed and sequential control
	KineticaRT Server components - for communication with sub-systems
	Easy to use Editors for configuring: Links with OPC channels Variables Constants Expressions Thresholds Control sequences Control components: position on page, size, colors and properties Connection of data channels to components (KineticaRT Studio supports numeric, text, boolean and matrix types)