Automatic weapon remote measurement system based on virtual instrument

In this paper an automatic weapon remote measurement system based on virtual instrument has been presented. The remote measurement system with G programming language on LabVIEW platform has been set up by use of the network communication technology, TCP/IP protocols and communication modules in LabVIEW. According to the purposes of automatic weapon measurement instrument modules(PXI), including controller, signal conditioning, DAQ etc have been chosen. It is necessary because the spot of traditional measurement for automatic-weapon measurement is always very dangerous. In addition, data of different parameters could be acquired in different places via Internet and the expensive hardware of the system can be shared by multi-users. Today a variety of different technology could be used to share data in applications, such as TCP/IP and DDE. However most of these tools are not aimed at real-time data transfer. In this system the LabVIEW Internet tool DataSocket, a new Internet programming technology has been adopted that simplifies data exchange between computers and applications. With DataSocket raw data can be passed efficiently over the Internet and can be responded to multiple-users without the complexity of low-level TCP programming. The measurement system has been built up in our laboratory, and the results have shown that it has strong flexibility utility.