♥ Experimental infrastructure
♦ INCAS Subsonic Wind Tunnel
This is a closed loop atmospheric type facility, with low turbulence characteristics and high speeds up to 110 m/s.
Equipped with state of the art data acquisition systems (including high sensitive 6 components balance) and flow
investigation capabilities (PIV, laser, IR). This facility is unique in Romania and part of ESFRI in UE.
♦ Test rigs with dedicated hardware for active vibration control, structures health monitoring, morphing
These are based on the Mecatronics Systems INCAS, featuring state of the art hardware for research and industrial applications.
Main hardware to be considered is:
• VTS 75M Modal Test System
• high voltage amplifiers for MicroFiber Composite piezo actuators – SMART MATERIALS GERMANY –
500V ÷ 1500V, 0-50mA peak AC, 0-10kHz;
• signal conditioners for strain gages – OMEGA: ± 5V output, 10kHz
• MicroFiber Composite actuators – SMART MATERIALS, active area 85x57mm2, d33 effect,
180μm ceramic thickness, 350μm fiber width, 500V ÷ 1500V operating voltage
• PZT actuators PIEZO SYSTEMS USA, thickness 0.508mm, area 72,4 x 72,4mm2
• strain gages sensors, nominal resistance 350Ω, max. permitted bridge energizing voltage 12 Vrms
• power supply for strain gages OMEGA OM5-WBS-3-C: 120V AC, 3A, 5VDC
• Data Acquisition Card PCI-6259 – NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS USA, analog inputs: 32 SE/16 DI · 1.25 MS/s · 16 bits,
analog outputs: 4 · 2.86 MS/s · 16 bits, digital I/O: 48 DIO · 10 MHz, counter/timers: 2 · 32 bits · 80 MHz
• Bruel&Kjaer charge conditioning amplifiers Type 2635
• Velleman functions generator
♥ Software, simulation and design tools, processing equipments
♦ Various IT equipment
• INCAS state of the art computer network, high performance computing capability in Grid cluster (128 procs.),
extensive storage capacity, delocated resources, including Grid technology
♦ Software
• state of the art analysis software based on Matlab.7.1 R14 (and dedicated toolboxes)
♦ LabView software environment: LabView software for data acquisition and control implementation,
software for controller synthesis, closed loop simulations and recorded data analysis
LabView DEVELOPER SUITE (2011)
- Advance Signal Processing Toolkit
- Data Finder Toolkit
- Digital Filter design Toolkit
- Internet Toolkit
- PID and Fuzzy Logic Toolkit
- Simulation Interface Toolkit
- Unit Test Framework Toolkit
- VI Analyzer Toolkit
- MathScript RT Module
- Application Builder Module
- Real-Time Module
• in-house codes developed for mecatronic applications, real time process monitoring
• CFD and FEM codes, from either in-house code development of the DxUNSp HPC parallel flow solver and
industrial standard Patran/Nastran and Fluent
• CATIA V5 R19 CAD development environment with SmartTEam integration
Mechatronic Systems
