Using signal processing to improve communications on the manufacturing shop floor

Author

Treichler, John R.

Author_Institution

Applied Signal Technology, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1993

fDate

27-30 April 1993

Firstpage

63

Abstract

Meeting the challenge of developing reliable data and voice communications for the multinode manufacturing shop floor environment requires extension of signal processing technology. The author examines a portion of this problem, the propagation characteristics of RF shop floor communications, to highlight the technical challenges in developing a reliable receiver for short latency data signals in a medium to large manufacturing facility. These propagation characteristics are used to infer the requirements for an equalized data demodulator suitable for the application, and then to show the need for study of alternative modulation and signal conditioning approaches.<>

Keywords

data communication equipment; local area networks; manufacturing industries; radio networks; radiowave propagation; signal processing; RF; equalized data demodulator; manufacturing shop floor; modulation; propagation characteristics; receiver; signal conditioning; signal processing technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1993. ICASSP-93., 1993 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN, USA

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7402-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1993.319055

Filename

319055