Development of a Robotic Sound Intensity Data Acquisition System for Powerplant Testing

A robotic sound intensity data acquisition system has been developed to overcome the problems of manual data acquistion.

The system has the following performance:

Accurate and repeatable positioning of the intensity probe

Regular five and six sided rectangular measurement surfaces

Irregular measurement surfaces around the complete powerplant, or individual components

Continuous scanning or fixed point measurements

Probe motion, data measurement, and storage of acoustic and geometric data integrated within the acquisition system database.