AMRDEC Test Facility Improvement Project Mid-Term Design Review

AMRDEC Test Facility Improvement Project Mid-Term Design Review

Project Introduction u Team Members • • u Bill Whiteley Jonathan Ahlbin Jostin Crass Ryan Davis Sponsor: Propulsion and Structures Directorate at Redstone Arsenal • Jay Lilley – Program Director • George Arkoosh – Main Contact

Project Focus u u Improve the Propulsion and Structures Testing Facility's Data Capture and Data Management Capabilities Two Pronged Approach • Improve video & audio data collection • Improve the management of collected test data

Hardware Requirements u Capture 4 cameras & 4 audio channels simultaneously • At resolutions of 640 x 480 • At 30 FPS • Export captured data to AVI encoded format • Instant replaying of test

Primary A/V Collection Plan u Arnold’s Air Force Base • Currently employing a multiple DVR system to capture A/V data from tests • Contacted Jim Nichols Works at Arnold’s Video Collection Center and is a Ph. D student at Vandy u Willing to work with us to model a system that meets our needs u Meeting scheduled for next week u

Secondary A/V Collection Plan u Pelco DX 8000 • Addressed George’s Concerns with the system during conference call u His Concerns are: • • • u Resolution/Frame Rate Proprietary Video format Uncompressed AVI Exporting Feature Recovery Disks Hard Drive Space Called Technical Support • Two Boxes must be used to achieve desired frame rate and resolution

Hardware Status u Bailment Agreement • Finished u Selection of primary or secondary video capture plan • Pending u Application Server • Finished and Online

Test Data Management u Data Storage System • Currently No organized system Data is usually kept by the engineers who conduct the test or the data resides with the person responsible for analyzing the data u DV tapes and Data Files (Video and ASCII) are stored various places and with various people u • Consequences of Current System Lost data u Misplaced data u Improperly labeled or cataloged data u

Software Requirements u The new Data Management System has the following requirements • The system must be able to store digital test data files • Users must be able to retrieve data from a thin client program (browser) connected to the application server • Users must be able to search or browse through previously entered test cases to find specific test data • The system must programmatically enforce a standard operation procedure • The interface to the system must be intuitive and simple

The Venom System u Vanderbilt Electronic Networked Object Management System • Intranet application hosted on MS IIS • Built on the Active Server Pages platform • Supported by MS SQL Server 2003 database • Written in VB Script, Java. Script, HTML and SQL

Technology Review u Application Technology • ASP – Active Server Pages Platform that runs inside MS Internet Information Service (IIS) u An ASP file has the file extension ". asp" u An ASP file can contain text, HTML, XML, and scripts u Scripts in an ASP file are executed on the server u Since ASP files are returned as plain HTML, they can be viewed in any browser u Provides security since your ASP code can not be viewed from the browser u

Technology Review u Database Technology • MS SQL Server 2000 Microsoft technology u Enterprise data management platform u Up to 32 Processors and up to 64 GB of Memory u SQL Server Agent runs scheduled tasks u Full-Text searching capabilities u Automated data backup capabilities u

The Venom System u Core Functionality • Open a new test case in the Venom System • Describe the test case using common test parameters Test Name u Requestor u Date of Test u Type Of Test u Hardware Manufacturer u • • • Upload generated test data to the test case Search or browse for previously entered tests Download test data from the test cases

Venom Environment

Application Model u Centralized Processing • Utilizes a Global Namespace • A single file handles all application state transitions u Two Stage Processing • Pre-Processing Stage – Takes action on user input and handles most database access, file upload / processing • Post-Processing Stage – Handles all of the page creation responsibilities Facilitates easy extension of the application u Increases security because it hides asp file information u

Processing Algorithm Current State default. asp Pre-Processing - Database Access Handle User Actions File Transfers Object Creation Post-Processing -Page Creation -Display Results Final State

Data Structure – Test Case

Data Structure - Application

Pre-Test Project Pretest: All information necessary to organize and perform a test u Goal: Gather information on pre-test procedures u Next Semester Goal: Design a program to perform and organize all pre-test procedures u

Pre-Test Progress Received a word document outlining nine general test categories u Contacted advisor via e-mail to continue to think about pre-test information u Future: Meeting advisor in Huntsville to gather all information regarding the pre-test u

Project Schedule

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