Rotor Blade Tracking System Integration

• Developed and integrated shared libraries in C for communication and control of third-party tracker system

  • Libraries utilized two communications channels over RS-485 and RS-232 for configuration transmission and data retrieval
  • Protocols included ASCII and non-ASCII binary packets with checksums and ASCII hex representations
  • Configuration parameters were retrieved from SQLite Database and ASCII configuration file
  • Developed and integrated libraries for tokenizing and parsing ASCII file contents with comments

• Integrated tracker communications, acquisition, and processing libraries with framework for collecting RTB data

  • Developed lightweight logging library using variadic functions for creating and writing to log files, as well as writing messages to stdout for real-time feedback during developmental testing of framework libraries
  • Assisted with aircraft installation and testing on the airframes OH-58C and OH-6A of the entire embedded system in aspects of vibration data collections and rotor track height data collections