<html><head></head><body><p dir="ltr">The ABS ergonomics guide has some info about alarm colours, sounds and behaviour which might be useful.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sean<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 10, 2015 1:39:02 PM MDT, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br />HI Cliff, thanks for the feedback. Alarms are located on the left side <br />under the yellow/black warning graphic. Each one functions as both an <br />alert and alarm. For example, a yellow alert lights up "DEPTH" at 500 <br />feet to warn of approaching maximum depth. At 600 feet it turns into a <br />red alarm. These alerts and alarms can only be disengaged by retreating <br />back to a non-alarm operating environment (ie.. decreasing depth to less <br />than 500 feet). Audio alerts will accompany the visual ones.<br /><br />Depth is available on all displays in the lower left corner. Data <br />logging is included and can be written to a USB drive and 'replayed' on <br />any other computer that has the same software on it or even imported <br />into something like a spreadsheet. However, if I end up with a tablet I <br />will likely log there directly.<br /><br />Battery information will be added when I get those sensors. This design <br
/>lends itself well to semi-automated control, for example typing in a <br />target depth of 100 feet and then letting the computer operate the <br />motors and monitor vertical rate of descent/ascent, slow down when <br />approaching the target depth, and then shutting off the motors at/near <br />target depth.<br /><br />A more distant and advanced project would be, I don't know, maybe <br />inertial navigation using an IMU.<br /><br />Jon<br /><br /><br />On 8/10/2015 12:19 PM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Jon, your first pass at HMI for your boat looks good. I like the <br /> overall layout and data seems to be presented in logical and <br /> straightforward manner. I think it would easy for someone other than <br /> yourself to get the state of the boat from this HMI.<br /><br /> On your DIVE panel, I would add a couple of items. The
first is the <br /> battery SOC and air SOF(state of Fill, 0-100%). These are key <br /> items for the home screen. Also, I would add a proximity switch on <br /> hatch so that the hatch state is shown. This can also be used to <br /> lockout diving the boat unless the hatch switch is closed. Also I <br /> would add Altitude. Airmar has a sensor called the DST800 that gives <br /> boat speed, depth (altitude) and water temperature. Signals comes in <br /> as a RS-232 ASCII string that you parse. On the NAV screen, I would <br /> include depth and altitude. On HIST screen, rather than looking at <br /> min and max on key variable's, I would recommend that up set up data <br /> logging and log all ship systems say every minute. Most PLCs and <br /> associated HMIs have data logging capabilities. This allows you to <br /> download all sensor measurements and switch states as a function of <br /> time. This is useful to analyze how the boat performed after the dive <br /> and
also serves a Black Box for the sub. I did not see any alarm <br /> database. Need to be able to see and hear and audible alarms an such <br /> items as low air pressure, O2 and CO2 out of range ...<br /><br /> Best regards<br /><br /> Cliff</blockquote><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br />Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org<br /><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>