TY  - EJOU
AU  - Liu, Xi 
AU  - Dong, Xinjun 
AU  - Wang, Yang 
AU  - Dodson, Jacob 
AU  - Joyce, Bryan 

TI  - High-g Shocking Testing of the <i>Martlet</i> Wireless Sensing System
T2  - Sound \& Vibration

PY  - 2018
VL  - 52
IS  - 3
SN  - 2693-1443

AB  - This article reports the latest development of a wireless sensing system, named <i>Martlet</i>, on high-g shock acceleration measurement. The <i>Martlet</i> sensing node design is based on a Texas Instruments Piccolo microcontroller, with clock frequency programmable up to 90 MHz. The high clock frequency of the microcontroller enables <i>Martlet</i> to support high-frequency data acquisition and high-speed onboard computation. In addition, the extensible design of the <i>Martlet</i>
node conveniently allows incorporation of multiple sensor boards. In this study, a high-g accelerometer interface board is developed to allow <i>Martlet</i> to work with the selected microelectromechanical system (MEMS) high-g accelerometers. Besides low-pass and high-pass filters, amplification gains are also implemented on the high-g accelerometer interface board. Laboratory impact experiments are conducted to validate the performance of the <i>Martlet</i> wireless sensing
system with the high-g accelerometer board. The results of this study show that the performance of the wireless sensing system is comparable to the cabled system.
KW  - Shock test
KW  -  wireless sensors
KW  -  data acquisition system
KW  -  hydraulic blast actuator
KW  -  <i>Martlet</i> wireless sensing unit

DO  - 10.32604/sv.2018.03857