PC Based Drilling Machine: Data Acquisition and Control Board

This book focuses on troubleshooting and improving a data acquisition (interfacing) board design such that data can be accurately communicated between a PC or microcontroller and the various hardware associated with a drilling machine. The book also describes how actuators such as solenoid valves can be interfaced to the data acquisition board. It also explains how the feedback circuits (such as limit switches) of the drilling machine are connected to the interfacing board. The data acquisition board produced can be considered to be generic. It may be used for any PC based application involving the control of real devices provided that no more than 16 inputs and outputs are required for the application. This board may also be used for microcontroller based applications as well.

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Praneel Chand works in the School of Engineering and Physics at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. He is a member of the IEEE and its Robotics and Automation Society. His research interests include multi-robot systems, mobile robot navigation and autonomous control systems.