Man to Machine, Machine to Machine and Machine to Instrument Interfaces for Teleoperation of a Fluid Handling Laboratory

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is the design and description of the software necessary for teleoperation of a remotely operated fluid handling laboratory. It does not include the implementation of this software. The laboratory for which it is designed is currently being developed at the University of Arizona, and is intended to be a small scale model of the fluid handling laboratory which will be aboard Space Station.

The designed software includes a man/machine interface, a machine/machine interface, and a machine/instrument interface.

The man/machine interface is graphical in nature, menu driven, and consists of high level commands which are independent of the devices in the laboratory. The machine/machine interface is also device independent. it consists of intermediary commands and maps the commands of the man/machine interface into the low level, device dependent, commands and programs of the machine/instrument interface.

Although the softyware is primarily desgined for the model fluid handling laboratory, the needs and requirements of the operation of a similar laboratory aboard Space Station have been considered.

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