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Network interfaces ?

Discussion in 'Force-Profiler Simulator Control' started by tpba, Sep 26, 2009.

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    Hello all ( and hopefully sirnoname )
    I'm working on an interface for some hydraulic control boards that I have from mccdaq.com ( Measurement Computing ). The 2 boards are a mix of Analogue and Digital I/O with 37-pin d-type interfaces. I think there are 8 digital channels on these boards - very high end stuff and the bigger one is worth about $2000 (AUD)... I'd prefer to keep them for this project.

    I currently have some hydraulic control software in place (written by someone else in VB) that controls/accesses these boards and does a very good job of moving the hydraulic systems. The hydraulic control software offers its motion abilities to other systems (currently FS2004) by acting as a tcp server and opening up a tcp port and processing the incoming byte packets as motion commands. The lower level motion control is achieved by reading & writing to specific I/O channels on the D/A boards. This I/O control is pretty complex and if I were to replicate this as an x-sim inteface, I would have to introduce a lot of debug code in the current system to track manually each particular motion of heave, pitch or roll (3dof) and the corresponding I/O code used to produce the result. I'd prefer to avoid that for now....

    Given the complexity of these boards, would it be feasible for me to code a TCPGeneric interface for x-sim, so that each motion request from x-sim is sent to the motion server as a tcp packet in byte format ? Probably the biggest issue would be postion feedback as it would need to return this info back to x-sim, and the hydraulic control server is not setup for this.

    Thanks

    T
    tpba, Sep 26, 2009
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