The functions of the crawler for mining and driving are all remotely controlled from the control computers on the ship. Various sensors allow comprehensive monitoring of the performance of the crawler. The crawler computer is based on PC/104 modules in connection with a standard industrial field bus system (Interbus) for data acquisition and control. The software used in the sand mining system ...

To secure real-time communication in wireless LANs it is pertinent to implement real time cryptographic services in software or hardware. In this paper we evaluate the use of software based inline encryption algorithms for wireless LANs that are implemented in the Layer Service Provider as de ned by WinSock 2 for Windows. The evaluated encryption algorithms run on each PC that is part of the wi...

A common requirement on future safety-critical systems is to support hardware interchangeability. In this paper, work sponsored by British Aerospace Military Aircraft and Aerostructures is reported which addresses this issue. Interchangeability is motivated by the need to perform technology upgrades within a system when components become obsolete – hardware computer components are often superse...

MPEG-2 video encoders are now available in a variety of forms using both hardware and software based approaches. The software-based approach potentially offers a better picture quality but is computationally quite intensive. MPEG-2 video encoding can be fast processed using parallelism. A number of approaches using parallel machines or networks of workstations have been reported. While these ap...

We have used SQL databases, PC based software tools, high volume network printers, and optical scanning technology to build an information system for a clinical trial that tracks the ambulatory care of over 60,000 patients at seven VA hospitals. The system presents patient information to providers at General Internal Medicine (GIM) clinic visits for 26,800 patients assigned to the intervention ...

This paper presents a PC-based Windows application software package for production of optimised maintenance schedules, performing economic dispatch, predicting actual dates for long-term maintenance scheduling and querying the current status of a generating unit from data files. A new heuristic algorithm based on the tabu search has been proposed as a solution. A software package, Automated Opt...

A LabVIEW®-based software for the control of the fully automated multi-sequential flow injection analysis Lab-on-Valve (MSFIA-LOV) platform AutoRAD performing radiochemical analysis is described. The analytical platform interfaces an Arduino®-based device triggering multiple detectors providing a flexible and fit for purpose choice of detection systems. The different analytical devices are inte...

Real-time control of industrial processes has become an important issue in the recent years. Advances in hardware and software technologies allow the use of single-processor computers to perform real–time tasks. The paper first explains the basic elements of PC–based real–time control systems. Then, it describes the general operation of WinMechLab, a real–time single–processor platform for the ...