Design of Real-time Image Processing System for Measurement and Calibration of PSP

The measurement of surface pressure in wind tunnel or in flight tests gives very important data for aerodynamics analysis. In fact, the pressure measurement gives valuable information about air flow phenomena such as shock, flow separation and boundary layer transition. In this paper a real-time image processing system for pressure sensitive paint (PSP) measurement and calibration has been designed using a calibrated pressure sensor. In the implementation of the system, TCL paper is used to luminaphore inside a windowed enclosure and a factory-calibrated pressure sensor for validation of measurement. The pressure measurement of PSP is based on the images acquired from a CCD camera sent to the MyRIO processor module in which the real-time image processing has been applied. The results are compared with the calibrated sensor from which the A and B coefficients of the Estern Volmer Equation have been calculated. During the several tests done for the pressure measurement, the accuracy of the PSP measurement has been calculated in this paper. Both normal and real-time image processing analysis have been compared as well.