Fusion of Smart-Sensor Standards and Sensors with Self-Validating Abilities
Pavel Pačes, Michal Reinštein, Karel Draxler · Journal of Aircraft · 2010
Airborne applications require a high degree of reliability, which is typically ensured by development guides, testing, quality checking, and overall certification processes. Although these processes provide a high level of product safety and reliability, the electronic devices can fail for various reasons. One of the main present-day problems is incompatibility of the communication interfaces of the smart sensors. This paper proposes a way of using a standardized IEEE 1451 interface with the information necessary for sensor self-validation ability. The necessary data are saved within the memory of the extended Transducer Electronics Data Sheet standard. This paper presents usage of the extended Transducer Electronics Data Sheet data on a servomechanism actuator with a feedback loop (servomechanism), designed for an unmanned aircraft.