Projects

Hydro International PLC: Automated large “Hydro-Brake® Flow Control” test rig
The world's largest "vortex flow control" tester and manufacturer required the automation of their Hydro-Brake® Flow Control test rig, allowing the ability to provide several different test procedures and be able to simulate a range of weather profiles. We provided a LabVIEW software system, which was able to control the flow rate into the system, to allow the simulation of various storm weather profiles by setting the pump inverter frequency with respect to time. More...

Automated Optical Test System
This project was for the software integration of an automated optical measuring system, which was able to calculate the insertion losses for a number of optical devices across a range of light wavelengths at a resolution of up to 0.001nm.The system included the calibration of a polarisation controller, which allowed the filtering of the light into its separate planes and included a lightwave switch for the testing of optical splitters.The entire system was controlled using LabVIEW allowing for precision, speed of testing and automation. More...

Anope-Dissipation/Anopdisation Controller
It is possible to build micro nonporous and nano-tube structures through a process of anope dissipation, which involves regulating current and voltage flow through a circuit submersed in an acid bath, this process allows an oxide layer to be grown on the cathode of the circuit. To better understand the growth of the oxide layer time critical comparisons between voltage and current were required allowing the resistance of the circuit and therefore the oxide growth to be calculated. Using our expertise in LabVIEW we were able to offer a simple automation process. More...

Optical Fibre Link Emulator
Optical Fibres in real world environments suffer a number of effects. Signal attenuation is the most obvious but they are also subjected to switching attenuations, polarisation mode dispersion and polarisation mode losses. In order to see and study these effects many kilometres of fibre and highly expensive test and simulation systems are required. More...