Advanced Instrumentation concepts for improving performance of manned spacecraft Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (EC/LSS) have been developed at Life Systems, Inc. The difference in specific EC/LSS instrumentation requirements and hardware during the transition from exploratory development to flight production stages are discussed. Details of prior control and monitor instrumentation designs are reviewed and an advanced design presented. The latter features a minicomputer-based approach having the flexibility to meet process hardware test programs and the capability to be refined to include the control dynamics and fault diagnostics needed in future flight systems where long duration, reliable operation requires in-flight hardware maintenance. The emphasis is on lower EC/LSS hardware life cycle costs by simplicity in instrumentation and using it to save crew time during flight operation.
Instrumentation for controlling and monitoring environmental control and life support systems
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems ; 1978 ; San Diego, CA
1978-07-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Life support subsystem monitoring instrumentation
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