{"title":"A new category of software-defined instrumentation for wireless test","authors":"T. Helaly, N. Adnani","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589614","url":null,"abstract":"The past decade has seen an exponential proliferation of wideband radio communication technologies. The drive toward wider bandwidths and increasingly complex modulations presents unique challenges from a test and measurement perspective. At the same time, device manufacturers typically have to contend with decreasing product margins and shrinking test equipment budgets. This trend is going to accelerate with the rapid proliferation of newer Internet of Things, 5G and their unique test requirements. This paper introduces a new category of software-defined, headless wireless signal analyzer. Distinguished by its cost-effectiveness, small form-factor, networkability and enhanced performance specifications, this product enables a range of new test applications that could not be effectively addressed by legacy benchtop, modular and handheld spectrum analyzers. The software-defined aspect enables the user to take advantage of an external host processor such as that in a laptop or desktop. Additionally, software modules for specific modulation formats can be utilized with a common hardware platform. This paper describes key attributes and architecture of the wireless signal analyzer platform and how it differs from conventional benchtop, modular and handheld test equipment.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124609397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automated maintenance path generation with Bayesian networks, influence diagrams, and timed failure propagation graphs","authors":"S. Oonk, F. J. Maldonado","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589574","url":null,"abstract":"Large and complex systems such as space vehicles, power plants, manufacturing facilities, oil refineries, gas delivery systems, among others often have networks of alarms monitoring basic parameters (e.g. high or low temperature, voltage out-of-tolerance, power loss, etc.) which are correlated to failure modes, but not necessarily in a very direct way. In this paper, we present a plurality of graph-based methods which are combined in a novel way for the automated analysis of a system's alarms (or any other observable discrepancies) to determine the most appropriate maintenance. Specifically: (i) Timed Failure Propagation Graphs (TFPG) and/or Bayesian Networks (BN) read alarms as evidence for conducing backward root-cause diagnosis and forward failure effects analysis while (ii) Influence Diagrams (ID) select optimal maintenance operations considering the likely causes and effects as well as the utility of available maintenance options. Innovative contributions to these individual techniques include an automated BN instantiation methodology and system/sensor TFPG diagnostic algorithms. The overall proposed system then determines optimal maintenance paths suggested to be conducted by personnel.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125457358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Ethernet and USB-based compact automated field test equipment for mobile surveillance and reconnaissance systems","authors":"Onder Unver, Cem Cigdemoglu","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589577","url":null,"abstract":"Military surveillance and reconnaissance systems are generally used in critical areas (e.g. borders, military bases etc.) for security purpose. Availability and maintainability are the most critical requirements for these systems. Therefore, when the system fails in the field, the fault must be determined as soon as possible to get into use the system. In this paper, design of an Ethernet and USB-based compact automated field test equipment (FTE) that finds the faulty line replaceable unit (LRU) for mobile surveillance system is discussed.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130227694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang Yu, Yueming Jiang, Yanmei Lv, Yongxue Ma, Xiyuan Peng
{"title":"Anomaly detection in analog circuits using Support Vector Data Description","authors":"Yang Yu, Yueming Jiang, Yanmei Lv, Yongxue Ma, Xiyuan Peng","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589573","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of electronic technology, electronic systems are widely used in various fields, and the reliability requirement for electronic systems is also increasing. Many test and diagnosis methods have been proposed. However, few methods can be used to recognize the intermediate anomaly state between normal and fault state. To solve the above problem, this paper presents an anomaly detection method based on Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) for analog circuits. Simulation and experiments have verified the effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115381174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed wireless sensor network system for electric field measurement","authors":"Dawei Deng, Haiwen Yuan","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589597","url":null,"abstract":"The area of high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line is very large, so using cable for electric field monitoring system is very inconvenient. Wireless sensor network(WSN) can solve this problem. Compared with the traditional communication network, WSN has the advantages of small volume, high flexibility, strong self-organization. So it's more suitable for the construction of distributed electric field monitoring system which has long distance and high mobility. On the other hand, optical E-field sensors are passive devices and they have such advantages as compact structure, wide-band response and wide measuring range which mechanical sensors lack. A distributed wireless system with optical E-field sensor is designed for collecting and monitoring the electric field under HVDC transmission lines. This measurement system has been used in China's state grid HVDC test base and power transmission projects. Based on the experimental results, this measurement system demonstrates that it can adapt to the complex electromagnetic environment under the transmission lines and can accomplish the accurate, flexible, and stable demands of the electric field measurement.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114724145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tapping into boundary scan resources for vehicle health management","authors":"L. Ungar, M. Sudolsky","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589618","url":null,"abstract":"Design for testability (DFT) should go beyond simply assisting manufacturing test or even beyond fielded unit troubleshooting. Boundary scanned components can be controlled to collect real time snapshots of signals capable of assessing circuit health in situ without interfering with normal operation or flight. Vehicle Health Management (VHM) frameworks can utilize the information gained from SAMPLE instructions gathered by JTAG/IEEE-1149.1 boundary scan compatible ICs using Boeing On-Line Diagnostic Reporting (BOLDR®) techniques to enable this data collection for assessing what maintenance actions should be taken. Boundary scan data at or around the time that failures take place can be collected as historical information and retained as “evidence” during a call for line replaceable unit (LRU) maintenance actions. First, it can help assess whether built-in test (BIT) or embedded test indications are persistent, continuous for certain operational modes, intermittent, or simply spurious. In other words, it can help determine false alarms (FAs). Second, once LRUs are in the repair facility and a No Fault Found (NFF) situation is encountered, the historical evidence can help determine the root cause and direct repair actions. Distributed and Centralized BIT for VHM data acquisition can be enhanced by the information boundary scan data provides. Many LRUs that already have boundary scan hardware can utilize embedded software updates coupled with BOLDR® VHM techniques with minimal if any hardware changes to take advantage of this added information source. This paper details how SAMPLE and BOLDR® can be used without major changes in legacy or new avionics.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115068498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"U-TEST® — An innovative test platform to accelerate the entry-into-service of military and civil electronic systems","authors":"Loup Foussereau, Gerard Delfour, J. Ardussi","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589580","url":null,"abstract":"The aerospace industry is constantly in need of better tools to improve the speed and accuracy of airborne electronic systems development. Certification of compliance with design requirements typically requires the simultaneous testing of multiple components. Any delay in their availability, or unexpected need for a partial redesign, can adversely impact the timing and cost of the final product. The later the problem arises in the development cycle, the costlier will be the corrective action. To address this industry concern, Spherea has successfully introduced an integration test platform called U-TEST®. The U-TEST® ATE platform is specifically designed to span the transition between all phases of integration testing, including laboratory simulation, supplier component test stand, air-framer test stand, “Iron Bird,” a/c ground test and a/c flight test. It accomplishes this in part through the use of sophisticated modeling and interoperable test vectors, as described below. The use of industry standard programming interfaces maximizes its availability to a broad customer set. In this paper the authors will outline the basic features of the U-TEST® system, and share the results of previous customer use.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"4 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121895086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modulation identification for cognitive aeronautical air-ground communications","authors":"H. Al-Hraishawi, L. Gupta","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589641","url":null,"abstract":"The main objectives for deploying Cognitive Radio (CR) technology in aeronautical communications are to achieve reliable communications and to avoid the expected congestion that is bound to occur in the near future. CR allows a very flexible and dynamic radio management system leading to improved radio spectrum utilization. Realizing CR features in aeronautical communications requires the ability to identify the modulation type of the received signal. In this paper, we introduce a modulation identification algorithm to distinguish the aeronautical signals from other modulated signals based on wavelet transform (WT) analysis. The proposed identification algorithm is able to recognize multicarrier and single-carrier modulated signals and is also able to discriminate linear and non-linear modulations. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performance of the identification algorithm for an aeronautical channel modeled as a Ricean fading channel in presence of Gaussian noise.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129709945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter A. Lindahl, S. Leeb, J. Donnal, Greg Bredariol
{"title":"Noncontact sensors and Nonintrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) aboard the USCGC spencer","authors":"Peter A. Lindahl, S. Leeb, J. Donnal, Greg Bredariol","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589633","url":null,"abstract":"Modernization in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard includes an emphasis on automation systems to help replace manual tasks and reduce crew sizes. This places a high reliance on monitoring systems to ensure proper operation of equipment and maintain safety at sea. Nonintrusive Load Monitors (NILM) provide low-cost, rugged, and easily installed options for electrical system monitoring. This paper describes a real-world case study of newly developed noncontact NILM sensors installed aboard the USCGC SPENCER, a Famous class (270 ft) cutter. These sensors require no ohmic contacts for voltage measurements and can measure individual currents inside a multi-phase cable bundle. Aboard the SPENCER, these sensors were used to investigate automated testing applications including power system metric reporting, watchstander log generation, and machinery condition monitoring.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133589523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-speed FPGA configuration and testing through JTAG","authors":"Ammon Gruwell, Peter Zabriskie, M. Wirthlin","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2016.7589601","url":null,"abstract":"Since most FPGAs use the universal JTAG port to support configuration memory access, hardware and software tools are needed to maximize the speed of FPGA configuration management over JTAG. This paper introduces a tool called the JTAG Configuration Manager (JCM) that enables high-speed programmable access to the configuration memory of FPGAs through JTAG. This tool consists of a linux-based software library running on an embedded ARM processor paired with a hardware JTAG controller module implemented in programmable logic. This JTAG controller optimizes the speed and timing of JTAG transactions over cables of any length using an automatic speed calibration process. This JTAG interface enables custom configuration sequences to be sent at high speeds. The JCM also has access to all JTAG interfaces of the FPGA including temperature monitoring and internal Boundary SCAN, making it useful for many testing and verification applications.","PeriodicalId":314357,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117055577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}