Jack Slinger Undergraduate Dissertation 2014/15

Development of a Raspberry Pi Controller for Multiple Ultrasonic Sensors, for Tribosonics Ltd

Supervised by P.McMinn

Abstract

Tribosonics Ltd are a Sheffield based company who specialise in ultrasonic monitoring solutions that allow industries a non-invasive way of measuring material thickness and corrosion.  The name of the company is a joining of tribology and sonics, where tribology is the study of lubrication, friction and wear, and sonic is pertaining to sound.

They have worked in collaboration with the University of Sheffield for the past two years, providing undergraduate dissertations.  The main aim of the previous projects has been to provide a means of communication between Tribosonics main circuit board (the T200) and a Raspberry Pi which is a credit card sized computer.  This allows the Raspberry Pi to host a website that allows access to the T200.  Currently each T200 has a website and each has to be accessed separately for interpretation of the results and control of the system.

The main aim of this project is to build on the existing work by extending the system to allow multiple T200 boards on the same local network to be controlled by a single website.